9.61.1 Top new questions this week

9.61.1.1 Can names of defined LaTeX commands be retrieved from a compiled PDF?

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I am aware that a compiled PDF typically cannot be decompiled back into LaTeX without using workarounds. However, I am worried about portions of the information available in LaTeX still being ... 
[macros] [compiling]
 

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answered by Ulrike Fischer https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2388 Score of 14

9.61.1.2 TeX jargon - Difference between "argument" and "parameter" in TeX?

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What's the difference between the term "parameter" and the term "argument" in TeX jargon? 
Are outermost enclosing pairs of matching curly braces of undelimited arguments to be ... 
[macros] [arguments] [definition] [jargon]
 

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9.61.1.3 How can I get the English words in this mostly-Greek document not to render in Greek characters?

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I'm trying to set a book in polytonic Greek with English sprinkled here and there throughout, but for some reason, when I try to switch to English, the characters stay Greek. Here's a MWE: 
\... 
[babel] [greek] [babel-greek]
 

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9.61.1.4 Show actual math source code in pdf

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I have an almost blind student in my class who has a hard time reading many math symbols such as superscripts or subscripts ($M_1$, $K^3$). He has learnt to read the latex source code, which is easier ... 
[math-mode] [pdftex]
 

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answered by Ulrike Fischer https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2388 Score of 8

9.61.1.5 Filling the area below a Bezier curve

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I use the following code in order to fill with color the area between a function and the x axis and it works properly. 
\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article} 
\usepackage{tikz} 
\begin{document} 
\begin{... 
[tikz-pgf] [xetex]
 

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9.61.1.6 Unexpected side effect of font encoding

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It is often recommended to include \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}, but I have been hit by the following difference: 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} 
\begin{document} 
texttt: \texttt{-->} 
... 
[font-encodings]
 

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9.61.1.7 tipauni, xeCJK: loading xeCJK messes up position of IPA diacritics

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I want to typeset a document containing some phonetic transcriptions of Chinese words. I'd like to write the words using Chinese characters, so I'm loading the xeCJK package for that. I'm also loading ... 
[xecjk] [tipauni]
 

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