11.23.1 Top new questions this week

11.23.1.1 Challenge: Show us your best tariff tables

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=740275

There are too few silly "contests" here nowadays, and I really think we could need a laugh. 
We have likely all seen the beautiful tariff table the other day. In case somebody missed it, here ... 
[tables] [fun] [big-list]
 

asked by mickep https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=52406 Score of 13

answered by mickep https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=52406 Score of 11

11.23.1.2 Can luatex parse log file at end, similar to grep, but without shell escape?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=740463

The Missing character message in Terminal is understandable to those of us who understand things. But it is a bit complex, to those of us who merely write (instead of coding). Worse, if \... 
[luatex] [error-writing]
 

asked by rallg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=358219 Score of 9

answered by Max Chernoff https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=270600 Score of 12

11.23.1.3 Why do \left( and \right) not produce same-sized parantheses here?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=740162

Given the equation below, I bumped into an issue that for the first pair of parentheses in the denominator, \left( and \right) produced smaller parentheses compared to the second pair of parentheses (... 
[math-mode] [amsmath] [math-operators]
 

asked by MA~\[DownExclamation]rton HorvA~\[DownExclamation]th https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=375637 Score of 9

answered by mickep https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=52406 Score of 12

11.23.1.4 Abbreviations with letters over symbols

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=740099

When writing mathematical notes, I often abbreviate common words such as "theorem", "equation", and the like. My usual method (in handwriting) is to write "thm", but with ... 
[accents] [text-mode]
 

asked by Andrew Stacey https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=86 Score of 8

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

11.23.1.5 Coloring a world map and some coordinates

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=740464

I have followed the wonderfull project in click here where I can to colour cowtries with prefered colors. 
Works perfecty for me. The code is presented below: 
\documentclass[varwidth=2\linewidth]{... 
[tikz-pgf] [pgfplots] [macros]
 

asked by Angelo Aliano Filho https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=205932 Score of 5

answered by MS-SPO https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=245790 Score of 5

11.23.1.6 Shadowtext inside a tikz node introduces unwanted space before letters

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=740373

I'm working with circular tikz nodes and would like the text inside them to have drop shadows. I tried to do this using \shadowtext, but it seems to destroy the horizontal centering within the node. I'... 
[tikz-pgf] [spacing] [nodes] [text] [shadows]
 

asked by wrb98 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=83183 Score of 5

answered by Qrrbrbirlbel https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=16595 Score of 6

11.23.1.7 Graphing a piecewise function

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=740465

I'm trying to make a simple piecewise graph but I keep getting this line going from (4,-4) to (4,7) and can't seem to find an easy way to get rid of it. This is my code (that I mostly took from ... 
[tikz-pgf]
 

asked by RedRoof Quinella https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=387468 Score of 4

answered by pascal974 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=263375 Score of 9