1.6.1 Top new questions this week

1.6.1.1 Document Layout Styles

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/262879/document-layout-styles

I am inviting partial solutions for defining styles for document layouts. The solutions should be capable of defining the font size, leading (interline distance), and type for the running text as well  ...
 

- asked by Marc van Dongen 12votes

1.6.1.2 Why are objects not horizontally aligned when using rotation?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/262598/why-are-objects-not-horizontally-aligned-when-using-rotation

This is my code. 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{tikz} 
\begin{document} 
\def\magnet at (#1,#2,#3){\draw [rotate=#3] (#1,#2) ellipse (0.8 and 0.4) 
node at (#1-0.4,#2) {N} 
...
 

- asked by Yogesh Yadav (11 votes), answered by Heiko Oberdiek (12 votes)

1.6.1.3 How are hyphenation patterns written?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/262588/how-are-hyphenation-patterns-written

In my miktex folder I checked the hyph-en-us.tex file and found letter patterns written like this: 
\patterns{ 
.ach4 
.ad4der 
.af1t 
... 
} 
What do these dots and numbers mean?
 

- asked by Giorgi (11 votes), answered by egreg (15 votes)

1.6.1.4 Understanding expansion of \mathpalette

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/263412/understanding-expansion-of-mathpalette

I'm trying to make sense of the \mathpalette code used in this answer. To repeat it below: 
\makeatletter 
\newcommand{\raisemath}[1]{\mathpalette{\raisem@th{#1}}} 
...
 

- asked by justin (9 votes), answered by Werner (8 votes)

1.6.1.5 What is the equivalent of \usepackage[T1] fontenc  in TeX?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/263258/what-is-the-equivalent-of-usepackaget1fontenc-in-tex

I have inherited a semi-small TeX project in which I, after syncing across various computers and OS'es, had some problems with encodings of special characters like A~\[Yen]A~\[Currency]A~\[Paragraph]. 
My initial approach for fixing  ...
 

- asked by Tomas Lycken (9 votes), answered by Ulrike Fischer (9 votes)

1.6.1.6 microtype: Protrusion not affecting unnumbered section titles

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/262987/microtype-protrusion-not-affecting-unnumbered-section-titles

The microtype protrusion won't work in my starred (unnumbered) section titles. I have a feeling that this might be part of a general bug of microtype when dealing with starting lines of environments  ...
 

- asked by lblb (8 votes), answered by cfr (5 votes)

1.6.1.7 Context sensitive glyph appears even when hyphenation removes the context

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/262998/context-sensitive-glyph-appears-even-when-hyphenation-removes-the-context

The Alegreya font has a pretty clever feature by which it substitutes the regular f glyph with a variant that has a longer cross stroke when the f is followed by t. The result is that the two cross  ...
 

- asked by Sverre (8 votes), answered by michal.h21 (7 votes)