4.2.1 Top new questions this week

4.2.1.1 Is it possible to use GPU acceleration on compiling large LaTeX documents?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/409232/is-it-possible-to-use-gpu-acceleration-on-compiling-large-latex-documents

Surprisingly, I haven't found much information on this topic, except for Tips for choosing hardware for best LaTeX compile performance, which states that compilation time mostly depends on how high  ...
 

- asked by andselisk (18 votes), answered by TeXnician (19 votes)

4.2.1.2 Problems drawing a sleeping duck

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/409367/problems-drawing-a-sleeping-duck

I'm trying to draw a sleeping duck, using the extremely cool tikzducks.sty. And I encounter two problems. To explain them, let me present the MWE first. 
\documentclass{standalone} 
...
 

- asked by marmot (13 votes), answered by Ulrike Fischer (16 votes)

4.2.1.3 Draw a Hasse diagram with circles with 3 sectors

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/409630/draw-a-hasse-diagram-with-circles-with-3-sectors

Hello everybody, 
I am try to draw the Hasse diagram (picture above) but I don't know. 
Thanks for your help. 
\documentclass[tikz,12pt]{standalone} 
\begin{document} 
\begin{tikzpicture} 
\fill  ...
 

- asked by PRS (12 votes), answered by TorbjA~,rn T. (10 votes)

4.2.1.4 How do I achieve this in simple TikZ commands?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/409064/how-do-i-achieve-this-in-simple-tikz-commands

I have a PStricks code and made some design in paint and converted to LaTeX code using Inkscape. Here is my MWE: 
\documentclass{standalone} 
\usepackage{graphicx,xcolor} 
...
 

- asked by Biki Teron (10 votes), answered by Zarko (12 votes)

4.2.1.5 Biblatex's bibmacros, bibliography drivers, formats - patch or redefine?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/409091/biblatexs-bibmacros-bibliography-drivers-formats-patch-or-redefine

xpatch offers a series of patching commands specific to support patching of biblatex's bibmacros, bibliography drivers and field/names/list formats (not citation commands though, as far as I grasped). 
...
 

- asked by gusbrs (9 votes), answered by moewe (9 votes)

4.2.1.6 What is the impact factor of TUGboat?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/409056/what-is-the-impact-factor-of-tugboat

Wikipedia defines the impact factor as follows: 
The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a measure reflecting the yearly average number of citations to  ...
 

- asked by Henri Menke (8 votes), answered by Karl Berry (16 votes)

4.2.1.7 Add blank/empty page after every page automatically

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/409249/add-blank-empty-page-after-every-page-automatically

I wrote my thesis and my school wants an one-sided print. The printing and binding will be done by a professional bookbinder. They only accept only two sided manuscripts. 
My \documentclass: 
...
 

- asked by Suriyaa Kudo (8 votes), answered by Heiko Oberdiek (9 votes)