10.29.1 Top new questions this week

10.29.1.1 Problem with forked edges in atypical forest.sty

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=716537

Most examples of output from forest (not unnaturally) follow a pyramidal shape commonly encountered in linguistic trees. As an experiment in culinary recipe formatting, I've tried to invert the ... 
[forest]
 

asked by sgmoye https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=11131 Score of 7

answered by cfr https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=39222 Score of 7

10.29.1.2 Angle between 3 points defined with coordinate

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=716687

Let's say points A, B and C are defined with coordinate. 
Is there a built-in function (let's say \angle{A,B,C}) which calculates the angle between 3 given points in Latex? 
I'm aware of the function \... 
[tikz-angles]
 

asked by Robertas Vilkas https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=292801 Score of 6

answered by AndrA~(c)C https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=138900 Score of 7

10.29.1.3 How do I change the page size for a pdf-file generated by plain-TeX?

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Situation, probably known 
I know the pdf-page-size can be changed in LaTeX using package geometry. But how to do it in plain-TeX? 
E.g. changing page related parameters, like \vsize or \hoffset, do ... 
[pdftex] [pdf] [plain-tex] [texworks]
 

asked by MS-SPO https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=245790 Score of 6

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4427 Score of 10

10.29.1.4 Need help with a timeline using Tikz

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=716435

I am new to LaTeX and TikZ. 
I need to draw a timeline with text written in different colors representing different parallel steps of my project. 
Here's my code: 
\documentclass{standalone} 
\usepackage{... 
[tikz-pgf] [timeline]
 

asked by Yan https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=319083 Score of 6

answered by CarLaTeX https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=101651 Score of 7

10.29.1.5 xcharter font and mathrm

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I am using fontsetup with a serif and sans-serif font of my choice to properly typeset different parts of my document, including extensive math usage. There seems to be an issue somewhere in the ... 
[math-mode] [luatex] [unicode-math] [xcharter] [fontsetup]
 

asked by lret https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=319185 Score of 5

answered by lret https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=319185 Score of 1

10.29.1.6 Placing nodes randomly on edges

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=716530

I am tring to set the pos of an edge node randomly. The following works: 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{tikz} 
\tikzset{ 
X/.code={ 
\pgfmathparse{rnd} 
\xdef\X{\pgfmathresult} 
... 
[tikz-pgf]
 

asked by Bubaya https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=27717 Score of 4

answered by Bubaya https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=27717 Score of 3

10.29.1.7 Make a command robust (unbreakable)

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=716404

If you define \bletter with \DeclareRobustCommand\bletter[1]{\textbf{#1}} it works fine even within section commands. But if you want to use it in an \edef or \xdef command, \bletter will be broken (... 
[robust-commands]
 

asked by user300467 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=300467 Score of 4

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