4.6.1 Top new questions this week

4.6.1.1 (Why) does enumitem cause poor hyphenation?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=415018

I have noticed some cases of poor hyphenation in my document.  Specifically, LaTeX is breaking hyphenated words like "large-scale" somewhere other than the hyphen.  (I thought that this was something  ... 
[hyphenation] [enumitem]
 

asked by Psychonaut https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=22603 26 votes

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=4427 20 votes

4.6.1.2 Square fractal generation in tikz

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=415174

I'm trying to recreate this exact diagram using tikz. So far I have been attempting to use nested decorations in tikz since I used these for other fractal constructions. However, these constructions  ... 
[tikz-pgf] [fractals] [tikz-decorations]
 

asked by M. Hughes https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=150732 11 votes

answered by Mark Wibrow https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=23215 17 votes

4.6.1.3 Is it possible to re-group every 4 digits in a number with siunitx package?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=414783

The current default digit grouping option in the package siunitx gives me a large number comma-separated or space-separated every 3 digits, e.g. 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} 
... 
[siunitx]
 

asked by MikeW https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=154715 10 votes

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=4427 10 votes

4.6.1.4 Add longer comments to steps of some calculation

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Consider the following example: 
\documentclass[11pt]{scrartcl} 
\usepackage{amsmath} 
\usepackage{IEEEtrantools} 
\usepackage{commath} 
\usepackage{lipsum} 
\begin{document} 
\section{Docendo discimus} 
... 
[math-mode] [equations] [cross-referencing]
 

asked by Florian https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=91371 10 votes

answered by marmot https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=121799 6 votes

4.6.1.5 Improving TikZ potatoes

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My aim is to provide tools to draw some irregular shapes more easily. Of course, I am aware of the smooth plots provided by TikZ but my aim is to make to allow for an alternative approach. Very often,  ... 
[tikz-pgf]
 

asked by marmot https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=121799 10 votes

4.6.1.6 Create diagram using xymatrix

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=414832

I'm trying to reproduce the diagram below using xymatrix package: 
This is what I've done so far: 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage[all]{xy} 
\begin{document} 
\xymatrix@C=1cm{ 
% First row 
... 
[diagrams] [xymatrix]
                                                                                  

                                                                                  
 

asked by lucascb https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=154745 8 votes

answered by Hood Chatham https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=23866 9 votes

4.6.1.7 How to detect "empty" elements inside a tikz \foreach statement

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=414599

I want to define a macro that feeds its contents into a tikz \foreach statement, for example: 
\newcommand\Macro[1]{ \foreach \x in {#1} {x=\x.} } 
which is then used as \Macro{1,2,3,4}. Sometimes, I  ... 
[tikz-pgf] [macros] [foreach]
 

asked by Andrew https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=30471 7 votes

answered by marmot https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=121799 8 votes