9.45.1 Top new questions this week

9.45.1.1 On Using Times New Roman as the Default Font

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=690785

I would like to use Times New Roman as the default font for the text in a book I have put together. 
After checking this site, it seems that all I have to do is type \usepackage{times} in the preamble. 
... 
[fonts] [times] [publishing]
 

asked by jean-marie https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=266798 Score of 9

answered by wipet https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=51799 Score of 13

9.45.1.2 Latex3: elegant way to forward a variable outside of the group

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=690700

I want to define a macro in a group in LaTeX3 so that it stays defined after the group, but without using global variables. For now I do: 
\documentclass{article} 
\ExplSyntaxOn 
\NewDocumentEnvironment{... 
[latex3] [grouping]
 

asked by tobiasBora https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=116348 Score of 9

answered by wipet https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=51799 Score of 6

9.45.1.3 Branches above each other in a phylogenetic tree

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=690912

I have created the following phylogenetic tree of the Semitic languages: 
With the following code: 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{tikz} 
\usepackage{tikz-qtree} 
\usepackage{forest} 
\begin{... 
[tikz-trees] [forest] [trees]
 

asked by Carlo Meloni https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=297859 Score of 7

answered by Alan Munn https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2693 Score of 7

9.45.1.4 Removing trailing newline in custom environment

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=690921

I am relying on the output of a 3rd party tool which I cannot really 
modify at the moment. It generates a soup of commands corresponding 
to a semantically annotated translation of some source code. 
By ... 
[line-breaking]
 

asked by gallais https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=26482 Score of 6

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4427 Score of 3

9.45.1.5 Why are the lines uneven?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=690717

I have a piece of LaTeX code as follows. I have edited it in various ways but the spacing between the lines remains uneven. 
\documentclass[a4paper]{article} 
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} 
\usepackage[T5]{... 
[pdftex] [vertical-alignment] [vietnamese]
 

asked by tungsondkh https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=255658 Score of 6

answered by Mico https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5001 Score of 7

9.45.1.6 How to use for loops in a custom command?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=690498

I have this nice code snippet to generate a DI table for integration by parts: 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{xparse} 
\usepackage{amsmath} 
\usepackage{tikz} 
\usepackage{pgffor} 
\usepackage{... 
[loops] [xparse]
                                                                                  

                                                                                  
 

asked by Shai Avr https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=274542 Score of 6

answered by Skillmon https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=117050 Score of 5

9.45.1.7 How to calculate dates to pass as arguments to pdfgantt?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=690905

I'm trying to work with dates in Latex (via Overleaf) with the datetime2 and pdfgantt packages. 
I have created a command to increment a date using \DTMsavejulianday. The below code shows that it is ... 
[pgfgantt] [datetime2]
 

asked by IanS https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=300579 Score of 5

answered by Willie Wong https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=119 Score of 4