10.16.1 Top new questions this week

10.16.1.1 How to get the first three letters of todaya^\200\231s day of week?

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I tried using the package datetime2 to get the whole name of todaya^\200\231s day of week and then xstring to trim it as desired. But when I run the following code, the result is not trimmed at all: 
\... 
[strings] [xstring] [date] [datetime2]
 

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answered by gusbrs https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=105447 Score of 7

10.16.1.2 Recursive macros revisited

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Consider the following code 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{xifthen} 
\def\question#1 #2 #3?{\ifx#1 #2 #3?\relax\else#1 #2 #3 or\expandafter\question\fi} 
\newcommand{\test}[1]{\question#1} 
\begin{... 
[macros] [formatting] [errors] [recursion]
 

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answered by Steven B. Segletes https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=25858 Score of 7

10.16.1.3 Are there LaTeX issues or optimisations that could be nicely/best tackled at the font level?

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I'm currently working on a family of fonts designed for use in formal writing and optimised in particular for use in mathematics articles, books, etc., and have recently asked for input from ... 
[fonts]
 

asked by Emily https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=171723 Score of 5

10.16.1.4 Possible improvement of code

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Code 
Consider the following example: 
\DocumentMetadata{} 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage[margin = 1.8cm]{geometry} % to avoid `overfull \hbox' 
\usepackage{tabularray} 
\begin{document} 
\begin{... 
[tabularray]
 

asked by Svend TveskA~\246g https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=15874 Score of 4

answered by samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=36296 Score of 5

10.16.1.5 how to display a distance matrix in latex

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I want to show a distance matrix as 
in latex and I try 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb} 
\begin{document} 
We obtain a distance matrix as follows: 
$$ 
\boldsymbol{D}=\{d_{ij}\}= 
\... 
[matrices]
 

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

10.16.1.6 Background image behind a LaTeX/TikZ forest node

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I use the forest package to draw ancestry trees. I would like to add papyrus scroll-like backgrounds to the nodes. This is the basic example: 
\documentclass[]{standalone} 
\usepackage{pgfplots} 
\... 
[graphics] [tikz-trees] [forest]
 

asked by lak20 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=129064 Score of 4

answered by Alan Munn https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2693 Score of 3

10.16.1.7 How to print the number of elements in the first and second rows of an array respectively?

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I've assigned an array and I want to design a command (Assume it's named \arraynum) with 2 values to print the number of elements in the first and second rows of an array respectively, for example 
\... 
[expl3] [latex3] [count]
 

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answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4427 Score of 2