9.50.1 Top new questions this week

9.50.1.1 replacing tt italic with tt slanted at LaTeX level?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=692277

I have a personal dislike of the CM typewriter italic design. (Sorry, 
DEK :). It's fine for what it is, but I just find it distractingly fancy.) For TUGboat, I always want to replace it with ... 
[fonts] [typewriter]
 

asked by Karl Berry https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=63279 Score of 11

answered by David Carlisle https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1090 Score of 9

9.50.1.2 `ltluatex.tex` vs. `luatexbase.sty`

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=692443

Both ltluatex.tex (from the LaTeX kernel) and luatexbase.sty (as an add-on package) share the same Lua namespace, namely luatexbase; they also share functions with the same name.  However, these ... 
[luatex]
 

asked by lemzwerg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=20911 Score of 8

answered by David Carlisle https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1090 Score of 7

9.50.1.3 Why do curly braces break this loop?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=692490

I was trying to solve 'Exercise 20.20' from the TeX Book which asks to create a macro \punishment capable of repeating a given sentence n times using the Plain TeX format. My first attempt was the ... 
[macros] [plain-tex]
 

asked by HomoVafer https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=246101 Score of 6

answered by David Carlisle https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1090 Score of 7

9.50.1.4 Why does the "\left [" partially disappear when I color a row in a table? But [ does not disappear

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=692316

The problem is shown in the picture below: the tall left-hand square brackets that should be produced by \left[ and \begin{bmatrix} vanish. 
The code is as follows 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage[... 
[tables] [color] [matrices] [colortbl] [bugs]
 

asked by Darkhomo Van https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=301543 Score of 6

answered by David Carlisle https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1090 Score of 6

9.50.1.5 Align \vdots at the center of an `aligned` environment

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=692298

In the following set of equations, I would like to have the vertical dots, \vdots, horizontally aligned at the center of the page. I tried a gathered environment nested within an aligned environment ... 
[equations] [alignment] [aligned]
 

asked by AEW https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=62605 Score of 6

answered by wipet https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=51799 Score of 5

9.50.1.6 Prevent "c from becoming A~\[Section] (Babel Spanish)

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=692148

I am writing the user manual of an R function. For the arguments of the function I need some quotes, and I'd like them to be square quotes, just like the ones the user will find when actually using ... 
[babel] [accents]
 

asked by PavoDive https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=102071 Score of 6

answered by Ingmar https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=26614 Score of 6

9.50.1.7 Properly creating a boxed vertical vector of math symbols in TikZ

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=692044

I am trying to create a boxed vertical vector of math symbols in TikZ. My goal is to have all the terms centered in the box (vertically and horizontally) and have the box auto-sized to fit around ... 
[tikz-pgf] [amsmath]
 

asked by jared https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=189423 Score of 6

answered by David Carlisle https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1090 Score of 8