3.41.1 Top new questions this week

3.41.1.1 How to have a text decorated circumference automatically equal to the length of the text?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/400895/how-to-have-a-text-decorated-circumference-automatically-equal-to-the-length-of

I would like to have some text decorated circles with their circumference automatically equal to the length of the text. 
That is something like my MWE but without calculating the radius manually by  ...
 

- asked by CarLaTeX (18 votes), answered by AboAmmar (16 votes)

3.41.1.2 Discretionary hyphen destroys kerning and ligature

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/400631/discretionary-hyphen-destroys-kerning-and-ligature

Consider the following example (plain TeX format): 
VA fi\par 
V\-A f\-i 
\bye 
I tried TeX, pdfTeX, XeTeX, and LuaTeX, but the second line looks the same as the first line only when using LuaTeX. My  ...
 

- asked by ManTingFang (11 votes), answered by Mico (12 votes)

3.41.1.3 TikZ: What EXACTLY does the the  - notation for arrows do?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/401425/tikz-what-exactly-does-the-the-notation-for-arrows-do

I am currently trying to work out how the perpendicular arrows  work, and I fail. 
Taking: 
\draw [arrow] (node1) -- node[sloped, above] {Caption} (node1 |- node2.north west); 
I suspected that the  ...
 

- asked by Layna (8 votes), answered by TorbjA~,rn T. (17 votes)

3.41.1.4 tcolorbox: Undefined control sequence \tcbsetmanagedlayer

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/401053/tcolorbox-undefined-control-sequence-tcbsetmanagedlayer

I don't know why, but I'm trying to change the \tcbsetmanagedlayer defined in tcolorbox in order to increase the number of maximal nested boxes. However, this fail with the error 
Undefined control  ...
 

- asked by tobiasBora (8 votes), answered by Christian Hupfer (11 votes)

3.41.1.5 How to fix overfull \hbox in multiline equation

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/401012/how-to-fix-overfull-hbox-in-multiline-equation

\documentclass[letterpaper,12pt]{article} 
\usepackage{amsmath} 
\addtolength{\oddsidemargin}{-.5in} 
\addtolength{\evensidemargin}{1in} 
\addtolength{\textwidth}{1.15in} 
\addtolength{\topmargin}{-.75in} 
...
 

- asked by massmatics (8 votes), answered by AboAmmar (17 votes)

3.41.1.6 Format decimal(i) numbers

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/400975/format-decimali-numbers

What is wrong with this code? 
\startMPcode 
numeric u; 
path yy; 
u:= 3cm; 
for i=0 step 2/10 until 2: 
draw (left--right) shifted (0,i*u); label.lft(textext(decimal(i)), (-2,i*u)); 
endfor; 
yy =  ...
 

- asked by Jorge (8 votes), answered by Henri Menke (11 votes)

3.41.1.7 Top alignment in array environment

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/400609/top-alignment-in-array-environment

I have an array which has a few columns, and each of the columns contains again an array. The problem is that the three arrays are vertically aligned with respect to the center. How to align them on  ...
 

- asked by JA~(c)rA~(c)my Blanc (8 votes), answered by Mico (5 votes)