9.51.1 Top new questions this week

9.51.1.1 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 13

answered by David Carlisle https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1090 Score of 11

9.51.1.2 `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 9

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

9.51.1.3 Adding * to some section numbers

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=692470

How to add * to some (i.e. not all) section numbers? 
a^\200\224 
Before 
2.1 Differentiation 
2.2 Integration 
After 
2.1 Differentiation 
2.2* Integration 
a^\200\224 
The documentclass is jlreq. 
I dona^\200\231t want to use a ... 
[table-of-contents] [numbering] [section-titles]
 

asked by Htmm https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=301680 Score of 7

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4427 Score of 8

9.51.1.4 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 7

answered by David Carlisle https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1090 Score of 13

9.51.1.5 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 7

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

9.51.1.6 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 7

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

9.51.1.7 Backtracking Equations

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=692647

I have been trying create the code that will replicate the backtracking boxes. I've not been able to split the boxes without using two different tikz pictures. I want the arrows to go from middle of ... 
[tikz-pgf] [tikz-arrows] [tikz-shape]
 

asked by Jon https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=149116 Score of 6

answered by Qrrbrbirlbel https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=16595 Score of 5