1.10.1 Top new questions this week

1.10.1.1 Why is a cross a^\200  used as footnote marker for people?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/268419/why-is-a-cross-used-as-footnote-marker-for-people

This not exactly about TeX, but about typography, and the TeX SE is the closest place I think of to ask this question in. 
In academic texts, Ia^\200\231ve very often come across a cross (no pun intended; I  ...
 

- asked by Philipp (29 votes), answered by PrzemysAo\202aw Scherwentke (23 votes)

1.10.1.2 Draw a progress circle around text

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/268327/draw-a-progress-circle-around-text

I would like to draw a circle with a border containing two colors. One color should be the base color and the second color should fill up the border up to a certain percentage. For now I am only  ...
 

- asked by kreide (20 votes), answered by Artem Mavrin (22 votes)

1.10.1.3 Sketching an acoustic scenario (head and loudspeakers) in TikZ

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/269080/sketching-an-acoustic-scenario-head-and-loudspeakers-in-tikz

I am interested in sketching a very common graphical scenario used in acoustic and audio research in Tikz. Essentially, it consists of a sketched head in the center and one or more loudspeakers around  ...
 

- asked by gbernardi (11 votes), answered by Gonzalo Medina (15 votes)

1.10.1.4 The following code compiles without error. How can I change that?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/268465/the-following-code-compiles-without-error-how-can-i-change-that

Unlike most questions on this site, my problem is that my code compiles without error and I do not want it to. 
I want to be able the check whether \command is defined and to do something if it is  ...
 

- asked by cfr (11 votes), answered by Alan Munn (9 votes)

1.10.1.5 Defining a new unit in siunitx that has a subscript

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/268235/defining-a-new-unit-in-siunitx-that-has-a-subscript

I would like to define a new unit, analogous to \electronmass, in the siunitx package but this time for the proton mass. So I just copy/pasted the definition of \electronmass from the style file and  ...
 

- asked by GertVdE (11 votes), answered by TorbjA~,rn T. (15 votes)

1.10.1.6 In LaTeX, make a box with the width of another text

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/268473/in-latex-make-a-box-with-the-width-of-another-text

I am looking for a command like \makebox{text to set width}[c]{new text} which would make a box with the width of text to set width containing ____new text____ centered.
 

- asked by Alexander Gelbukh (10 votes), answered by cfr (16 votes)

1.10.1.7 How to avoid a linebreak before a comma in Lua(La)TeX?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/268794/how-to-avoid-a-linebreak-before-a-comma-in-lualatex

This is a (somewhat late) follow up to the question How to avoid a linebreak before a comma? where @MostlyHarmless shows that a line break may be introduced after a word ending with a hyphen even if  ...
 

- asked by georgd (9 votes), answered by michal.h21 (8 votes)