3.19.1 Top new questions this week

3.19.1.1 Draw a shaded wheel in Tikz
3.19.1.2 Different Style of pi infinity symbol
3.19.1.3 Make negative spacing between letters and make them darker on the overlapping parts
3.19.1.4 Effiency and speed of expl3 "datatypes"
3.19.1.5 How to display section number in the section's title?
3.19.1.6 microtype producing dozens of Unknown slot number warnings
3.19.1.7 When is TeXLive's next release date? (and where is this information published?)
3.19.1.1 Draw a shaded wheel in Tikz

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/373279/draw-a-shaded-wheel-in-tikz

I want to draw a shaded wheel using Tikz 
\documentclass{standalone} 
\usepackage{tikz} 
\usetikzlibrary{shadings} 
\begin{document} 
\begin{tikzpicture} 
\shade[outer color=gray,middle  ...
 

- asked by Karkouch (15 votes), answered by Paul Gaborit (12 votes)

3.19.1.2 Different Style of pi infinity symbol

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/372827/different-style-of-pi-infinity-symbol

Hi I am trying to create the following symbol in Latex. I am not able to make symbol of infinity to hang at the leg of pi as shown in symbol. The picture the I want is 
But I got so far is the  ...
 

- asked by Kumarm (13 votes), answered by Steven B. Segletes (19 votes)

3.19.1.3 Make negative spacing between letters and make them darker on the overlapping parts

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/373637/make-negative-spacing-between-letters-and-make-them-darker-on-the-overlapping-pa

I want to make number of the chapter to be as big as the paper. This is what I have achieved so far. 
What I want is to make negative spaces between letters, so they overlap and the overlapping part  ...
 

- asked by Michael Fraiman (11 votes), answered by Steven B. Segletes (9 votes)

3.19.1.4 Effiency and speed of expl3 "datatypes"

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/373164/effiency-and-speed-of-expl3-datatypes

Context: For teaching purposes I'm planning to implement a binary tree in expl3 (please no "implement-it-in-another-language-comments"). I wonder whether to use token lists or clists or something  ...
 

- asked by TeXnician (10 votes), answered by Joseph Wright (9 votes)

3.19.1.5 How to display section number in the section's title?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/373642/how-to-display-section-number-in-the-sections-title

Is there an easy way to display a section's number in its title? I am currently using the article document class. 
Here is my minimal working example: 
\documentclass[a4paper]{article} 
...
 

- asked by BigLudinski (8 votes), answered by Moriambar (7 votes)

3.19.1.6 microtype producing dozens of Unknown slot number warnings

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/373594/microtype-producing-dozens-of-unknown-slot-number-warnings

With TeX Live 2017, microtype has started producing dozens of 
unknown slot number warnings. This does not happen with TeX Live 
2016 (fully updated). Here is an MWE: 
\documentclass{article} 
...
 

- asked by jcr (8 votes), answered by Robert (6 votes)

3.19.1.7 When is TeXLive's next release date? (and where is this information published?)

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/372877/when-is-texlives-next-release-date-and-where-is-this-information-published

According to TeXLive's homepage, the current release is TeX Live 2016, and it is implied that the next release will be called 'TeX Live 2017' (the page states "Plans for TeX Live 2017"). 
When is TeX  ...
 

- asked by Evan Aad (7 votes), answered by Josef (5 votes)