11.84.1 Top new questions this week

11.84.1.1 Evolution of 'Computer Modern' or who lowered the dot on the 'i'?

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In the process of hopefully migrating some documents from pdflatex that use Computer Modern fonts (mostly Sans) to LuaLaTeX, I am looking at the different variants that have evolved since the original ... 
[fonts] [pdftex] [luatex] [opentype]
 

asked by Alain Stalder https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=193511 Score of 11

11.84.1.2 Strange spacing on a matrix

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Why would the vertical spacing between the 2nd and 3rd lines in this matrix be larger than the others? 
\documentclass{report} 
\usepackage{amsmath} 
\begin{document} 
\[ 
\begin{pmatrix} 
1 ... 
[amsmath] [matrices]
 

asked by Knudsen https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=129514 Score of 10

answered by F. Pantigny https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=163000 Score of 3

11.84.1.3 Graphing the function y=x^2sin(1/x)

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Consider the following MWE: 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{amsmath} 
\usepackage{pgfplots} 
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.18} 
\begin{document} 
\begin{tikzpicture} 
\begin{... 
[tikz-pgf] [pgfplots]
 

asked by azetina https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=10898 Score of 8

answered by Skillmon https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=117050 Score of 12

11.84.1.4 TikZ, \x^2 != \x * \x?

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Why do the two \draw commands produce two different plots? Shouldn't they both produce a parabola? How do you use the ^2 notation to plot a parabola? 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{tikz} 
\begin{... 
[tikz-pgf]
 

asked by ana https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=96660 Score of 7

answered by Raffaele Santoro https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=24644 Score of 5

11.84.1.5 How to draw a pattern within a path that features a visible decorated path and also invisible paths? OR How to visualize the ground?

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How does the following MWE need to be modified to only visualize the decorated path but not the remaining path and draw the top right-hand corner not rounded? 
\documentclass{standalone} 
\usepackage{... 
[tikz-pgf] [tikz-path] [tikz-decorations]
 

asked by Simon https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=379946 Score of 7

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

11.84.1.6 What is the minimum set of commands to compile a plain tex file with UTF-8 Chinese characters to PDF?

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Consider the following minimum Tex example with Chinese characters: 
a"\275 ao\[Yen]\275 
\bye 
I tried to compile it the traditional way, and it produces an blank document: 
tex Hello.tex 
dvipdf Hello.dvi 
I tried to ... 
[xetex] [unicode] [chinese]
 

asked by merlin2011 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=24402 Score of 7

answered by David Carlisle https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1090 Score of 10

11.84.1.7 Maximum, minimum, saddle and inflection points

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=756054

I want to illustrate the different cases that can arise in a typical calculus course of functions of one variable. After searching a lot, I found a relevant question here. 
So, I am using the following ... 
[tikz-pgf]
 

asked by Dimitrios ANAGNOSTOU https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=284130 Score of 6

answered by Simon Dispa https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=161015 Score of 5