3.6.1 Top new questions this week

3.6.1.1 Too many Aristotles, too many Averroeses and too many semi-colons in Biblatex: how can I make \citeauthor behave more like \textcite?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/352454/too-many-aristotles-too-many-averroeses-and-too-many-semi-colons-in-biblatex-h

Biblatex provides both \textcite and \citeauthor, among other commands, for citing resources in the body of a document. 
Unlike \textcite, however, \citeauthor does not behave as I'd expect.  ...
 

- asked by cfr (12 votes), answered by moewe (9 votes)

3.6.1.2 "Parallel reduction arrow": -//->

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/352200/parallel-reduction-arrow

What's the best way to get a "parallel reduction arrow" (as in the one used to show confluence of the $\lambda$-calculus, if that means anything) 
Concretely I want an arrow with a // crossing the  ...
 

- asked by Guido (12 votes), answered by yo' (15 votes)

3.6.1.3 Create simple repetitive macro with optional argument

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/352104/create-simple-repetitive-macro-with-optional-argument

I would like the simplest (in terms of length of characters) way to create a macro that does something or, optionally, does something n times. 
In fact, all I want to do is to create something like  ...
 

- asked by AbstractDissonance (12 votes), answered by Werner (9 votes)

3.6.1.4 Drawing circular sector regions

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/351976/drawing-circular-sector-regions

I would like to round the corners of the gray filled areas. The problem seems to be in how I am building the borders as separate pieces as opposed to one contiguous command that can use the "rounded  ...
 

- asked by Laars Helenius (12 votes), answered by Zarko (13 votes)

3.6.1.5 Why is the distance between plus or minus and the number different?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/352830/why-is-the-distance-between-plus-or-minus-and-the-number-different

In the align below the last element of the first row is slightly off compared to the next rows. It looks like the root cause is mostly the distance between minus and zero, but also between the equal  ...
 

- asked by aiag (11 votes), answered by Werner (10 votes)

3.6.1.6 How to respond to conflicting environment names in published packages which I inadvertently inflicted on an unsuspecting public?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/352449/how-to-respond-to-conflicting-environment-names-in-published-packages-which-i-in

What is the best thing to do if you've inadvertently published a package which conflicts with another, where the conflict involves competing definitions of an environment? 
In this case, both  ...
 

- asked by cfr (11 votes), answered by David Carlisle (12 votes)

3.6.1.7 Writing 1 = 10^0 with \num e0

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/352307/writing-1-100-with-nume0

Why does \num{e0} automatically translate to 1 instead of 10^0? 
And how is this fixed in case you want to alter the default behavior?
 

- asked by Thomas (8 votes), answered by TorbjA~,rn T. (13 votes)