2.36.1 Top new questions this week

2.36.1.1 Drawing a spinner

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/329864/drawing-a-spinner

I am trying to create a spinner as shown in the figure below. I have drawn the disk but I am confused how should I draw the rod of the spinner. 
My Code: 
\documentclass[a4paper]{article} 
...
 

- asked by Muhammad Kamal (15 votes), answered by John Kormylo (8 votes)

2.36.1.2 New Symbols in Latex

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/330625/new-symbols-in-latex

I want to define the following commands directly in latex. 
\cross{a}{b} which should create a black square, with a grey 
cross inside it and the symbols $a$ and $b$ arranged along the 
diagonal.  ...
 

- asked by verifying (14 votes), answered by Steven B. Segletes (10 votes)

2.36.1.3 A never-written char "b" appears in a minipage

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/330651/a-never-written-char-b-appears-in-a-minipage

I'm trying to make a presentation with beamer and I've just started using minipages. 
The following code compiles without any issue and the resulting formatting is good, when proper text and graphics  ...
 

- asked by RM00 (13 votes), answered by David Carlisle (27 votes)

2.36.1.4 Can I introduce a special environment which will reappear at the end?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/329789/can-i-introduce-a-special-environment-which-will-reappear-at-the-end

I am writing a book-length document, and occasionally I have some text that I would like to automatically repeat at the end. For example, something like 
\begin{important_thing} 
\medskip 
{\bf Lorem  ...
 

- asked by Anonymous (13 votes), answered by Steven B. Segletes (13 votes)

2.36.1.5 How to produce given number of quad in math

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/330588/how-to-produce-given-number-of-quad-in-math

We know that \qquad equals \quad\quad, then is there a way to define a command like \myquad{5} to produce five \quad? 
I think there are two way: 
get the length of \quad, then 
...
 

- asked by user19832 (11 votes), answered by Werner (12 votes)

2.36.1.6 Mathtools' underbrackets and MinionPro

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/330283/mathtools-underbrackets-and-minionpro

The code 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{mathtools} 
\usepackage{MinionPro} 
\begin{document} 
\[ 
\underbracket{123}_{x} 
\underbracket[1pt]{123}_{x} 
\] 
\end{document} 
produces 
If one  ...
 

- asked by Mariano SuA~\[DownExclamation]rez-A~\201lvarez (10 votes), answered by egreg (12 votes)

2.36.1.7 Draw syntax diagram with tikz

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/330433/draw-syntax-diagram-with-tikz

I am trying to create these: 
I have tried to make the first figure with this code 
\documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone} 
\usepackage{tikz} 
\usetikzlibrary{arrows,automata,positioning} 
...
 

- asked by Jamgreen (9 votes), answered by Manuel Schmidt (3 votes)