2.34.1 Top new questions this week

2.34.1.1 Why is it not necessary to close this brace?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/327754/why-is-it-not-necessary-to-close-this-brace

When I compile the following document, I get no error 
\documentclass{article} 
\newcommand{\foo}{foo} 
\begin{document} 
Why is \foo{ indifferent about its closing brace? 
\end{document} 
yet there is  ...
 

- asked by Hugh (20 votes), answered by Paul Gessler (27 votes)

2.34.1.2 What is the easiest, elegant font change and at the same time keep the readability of the TeX source file

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/328010/what-is-the-easiest-elegant-font-change-and-at-the-same-time-keep-the-readabili

My goal is to reduce typing and at the same time keep the document as readable as possible. 
Issue at hand: 
I want to change the font for one word in a particular sentence. For example, I want to  ...
 

- asked by Igor (13 votes), answered by David Carlisle (14 votes)

2.34.1.3 Avoid @ hackery: How can I preserve spaces in a format specification when processing the specification with expl3 and PGF/TikZ?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/327619/avoid-hackery-how-can-i-preserve-spaces-in-a-format-specification-when-proces

This is a simplified version of part of the code I've been using in answers based on chronos, an attempt to create something somewhat like a substitute for the problematic chronosys. 
This code works  ...
 

- asked by cfr (12 votes), answered by Joseph Wright (7 votes)

2.34.1.4 Draw a dash-dotted line

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/327982/draw-a-dash-dotted-line

How can I produce a dash-dotted line .-.-.-.-. I tried to find something in the tikz manual, but didn't find anything.
 

- asked by Ben (9 votes), answered by TorbjA~,rn T. (13 votes)

2.34.1.5 Appearance of \tiny or \scriptsize Fontsize in LaTeX (horizontal stretch)

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/328228/appearance-of-tiny-or-scriptsize-fontsize-in-latex-horizontal-stretch

The fontsize commands for fontsizes smaller than \normalsize stretch the aspect ratio of the letters or stretch the letters itself plus their spacing instead of properly scaling the text in width and  ...
 

- asked by phw (8 votes), answered by Mico (10 votes)

2.34.1.6 How to get Peso sign in LaTeX?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/327597/how-to-get-peso-sign-in-latex

I'm looking for a way to include a Philippine Peso sign (Unicode code point 0x20B1) in a LaTeX document.  Using the textcomp package (as shipped with the base latex distribution) in conjunction with  ...
 

- asked by user3188445 (8 votes), answered by egreg (2 votes)

2.34.1.7 Missing \begin document , \count22 and a mathchar give infinite font-loading attempts

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/328412/missing-begindocument-count22-and-a-mathchar-give-infinite-font-loading-att

After some expected errors (missing \begin{document}, missing number treated as zero, missing $ inserted) the following code produces an infinite loop where LaTeX attempts to load the font  ...
 

- asked by Bruno Le Floch (7 votes), answered by egreg (9 votes)