10.45.1 Top new questions this week

10.45.1.1 Why can't LaTeX (seem to?) Support Arbitrary Text Sizes?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=721580

Context: I've been a casual LaTeX user for years. I've never done a deep tech dive on the platform, but it's always one of those temping "wow I could get lost for years here if I made this my ... 
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asked by Alana Storm https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4689 Score of 11

answered by Davislor https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=61644 Score of 22

10.45.1.2 How to create a curved cylinder in TikZ with a custom base shape?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=721766

Ia^\200\231m trying to create a curved cylinder in TikZ with a specific base shape. Here is the base shape I want to use: 
\documentclass{standalone} 
\usepackage{tikz} 
\usetikzlibrary{calc} 
\begin{document} 
%... 
[tikz-pgf] [graphics] [shapes]
 

asked by mori https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=326685 Score of 7

answered by dexteritas https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=123129 Score of 6

10.45.1.3 Conflict between `\setmainfont` and `\mainmatter`

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=721772

I compiled this MWE 
\documentclass{toptesi} 
\setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX]{TeX Gyre Termes} 
\begin{document} 
\mainmatter 
This is a sentence. 
\end{document} 
with 
/usr/local/texlive/2024/bin/x86_64-... 
[fonts] [errors] [luatex] [polyglossia] [toptesi]
 

asked by miticollo https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=274163 Score of 6

answered by cabohah https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=277964 Score of 3

10.45.1.4 How to produce this table: Probability datatable with multirow

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=721490

I want to produce the the following table: 
This is my working(only data for Male) 
\documentclass[11pt]{article} 
\usepackage{amsmath} 
\usepackage{multirow} 
\begin{document} 
\begin{tabular}{|p{1.5cm}... 
[tables] [multirow]
 

asked by Rafiq https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=85483 Score of 5

answered by JeT https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=163874 Score of 8

10.45.1.5 Adding Multiple Titles with Gilded Effects

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=721769

In Giving a Title a Gilded Effect, I asked how to give a "gilded effect" to the lettering in the title; to which, hpekristiansen gave a very nice answer in which both the title and ornaments ... 
[tikz-pgf] [xetex] [pgfornament] [tikz-fadings] [tikzpagenodes]
 

asked by DDS https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=314693 Score of 5

answered by hpekristiansen https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=8650 Score of 5

10.45.1.6 exploded pie chart, circumscribing arc, and text labels

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=721709

Most of my figures in various books are pgf/tikz, with a few pstricks tossed. One of the few figures I rendered external to LaTeX (generated using a vector-based graphics program) looks like the ... 
[tikz-pgf] [pgf-pie]
 

asked by Johnny Canuck https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=16184 Score of 5

answered by matexmatics https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=290058 Score of 6

10.45.1.7 How can I stop l3build deleting files generated by a custom target?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=721788

(Silly) MNWE: 
build.lua: 
ctanpkg = "mini" 
module = "mini" 
installfiles = {"*.sty", "*.cls", "*.sup"} 
tdslocations = { 
"tex/latex/mini/*.... 
[latex3] [package-writing] [build-system] [l3build]
 

asked by cfr https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=39222 Score of 4

answered by David Carlisle https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1090 Score of 3