11.11.1 Top new questions this week

11.11.1.1 Why does glue stretch more than its stretchability, but not shrink more than its shrinkability?

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I'm new to TeX and I'm working through the TeXbook (the 2021 edition if that makes any difference). Chapter 12 talks about glue, but something it mentions is a bit confusing. 
Glue will never shrink ... 
[plain-tex] [glue]
 

asked by Luis Green https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=377559 Score of 8

answered by David Carlisle https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1090 Score of 17

11.11.1.2 Typeset the adA~..le symbol

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I want to make the symbol for the restricted product of a family of topological spaces. In different books it is expressed as: 
I tried with: 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{mathtools} 
\begin{... 
[symbols] [overlays]
 

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answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4427 Score of 9

11.11.1.3 How to divide two numbers and pass the result to \includegraphics?

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In this example 
\includegraphics[width=0.6\textwidth]{example-image-a} 
How to divide 0.6 by say 5, and have the result be used instead of 0.6? I tried to use the fp package to do the division, but ... 
[macros] [includegraphics] [fp]
 

asked by Nasser https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=14594 Score of 7

answered by Jasper Habicht https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=47927 Score of 4

11.11.1.4 Removing the Vertical Gap Between Last Two Lines of TOC Subsection Entry

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This following question relates to the one posted here: On the Display of Long Font Size-Adjusted Subsection TOC Entries 
Consider the following code which adjusts the font size of the TOC subsection ... 
[table-of-contents] [fontsize] [tocloft] [subsection] [gap]
 

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answered by Mico https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5001 Score of 4

11.11.1.5 Access Kurier upright calligraphic letters

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Is there an easier way to access Kurier's upright calligraphic letters than entering their unicode value? 
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{scrartcl} 
\usepackage[math]{kurier} 
\usepackage{fontspec} 
\... 
[fonts] [fontspec] [math-fonts] [mathcal] [calligraphy]
 

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11.11.1.6 Precision problem of pgfmath and xfp

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The MWE is quite self-explaining: 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{pgfplots} 
\usepackage{pgfmath-xfp} 
\usetikzlibrary{math} 
\pgfmxfpdeclarefunction{test}{4}{ 
#1 * #3 - #2 * #4 
} 
\begin{... 
[calculations] [pgfmath] [floating-point] [xfp]
 

asked by Yijun Yuan https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=107173 Score of 6

answered by Skillmon https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=117050 Score of 8

11.11.1.7 Unexpected difference with tracinglostchars, pdflatex vs lualatex

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TeXLive 2024, Linux. Here is the MWE. Compile (command line) with pdflatex and lualatex, to see the difference in behavior: 
\documentclass{article} 
% Using default font Latin Modern Roman at 10pt. 
% ... 
[luatex] [characters]
 

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answered by cfr https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=39222 Score of 6