9.62.1 Top new questions this week

9.62.1.1 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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answered by Ulrich Diez https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=118714 Score of 17

9.62.1.2 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]
 

asked by Joel Derfner https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=215301 Score of 10

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4427 Score of 9

9.62.1.3 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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answered by Qrrbrbirlbel https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=16595 Score of 9

9.62.1.4 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]
 

asked by false https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=293164 Score of 7

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

9.62.1.5 Merging 2 hemispheres using tikz

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I am trying to reproduce this complicated figure using tikz : this consists of 2 merging hemisphere as shown below : 
I don't know if this is really difficult in latex but I have tried to inspire ... 
[tikz-pgf] [diagrams] [tikz-3dplot] [polarplot]
 

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answered by Juan CastaA~+-o https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=231368 Score of 3

9.62.1.6 Use same font in text and math operators sin, cos, log etc

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I am making my presentation in beamer and want to use a sans font for text and mathpazo font for math. I would like, though, that operator names are by default set in the same sans font as my text, ... 
[beamer] [fonts] [math-fonts] [sansmathfonts]
 

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9.62.1.7 What are all the possible codes for the matrix \llbracket, \rrbracket and \llparenthesis,\rrparenthesis?

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1. I am interested in the matrix: 
To make this matrix, I am using the following code (the full document): 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{amsmath} 
\usepackage{amsfonts} 
\usepackage{stmaryrd} 
\... 
[matrices] [brackets]
 

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answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4427 Score of 6