4.7.1 Top new questions this week

4.7.1.1 Problem with interesting recipe format

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=416716

I was wandering through the internet and came acrosshttp://graphicalcooking.co. An attractive format, and I said to myself, "TikZ can do that!" And so it can. I wrestled with this this morning and  ... 
[tikz-pgf] [positioning] [fun] [intersections]
 

asked by sgmoye https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=11131 21 votes

answered by marmot https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=121799 13 votes

4.7.1.2 LuaLaTeX stopped after updating expl3 package

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=416862

After the latest TeX Live updates I keep getting these errors: 
LaTeX Warning: You have requested, on input line 26, version 
`2018/02/21' of package expl3, 
but only version 
... 
[texlive] [expl3]
 

asked by Marcel S. https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=85499 13 votes

answered by Matthew Leingang https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=1402 10 votes

4.7.1.3 What is the function of \kern\z@ in the definition of \dotfill?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=417238

When imitating \dotfill, I ran into \kern\z@. Why would I want to kern zero points off the end of \dotfill (or my version)? Why is this smart? What practical reasons does it serve? 
\dotfill: 
Code 
... 
[tex-core]
 

asked by Jonathan Komar https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=13552 10 votes

answered by Heiko Oberdiek https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=16967 12 votes

4.7.1.4 Typeset KampA~(c) de FA~(c)riet function

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=417458

I'm trying to reproduce the way the KampA~(c) de FA~(c)riet function is typeset in a paper. Here's a screenshot: 
Here's what I've got: 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{amstext, amsmath, amssymb} 
... 
[matrices]
 

asked by Alex https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=14634 9 votes

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

4.7.1.5 How to define at tikz style option to draw a dimension line between to specific points

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=417617

I want to create a LaTeX package called for example dimension to provided a tikz style option named for example dimstyle. 
Then given two points A and B we can use this style to draw a dimension line  ... 
[tikz-pgf] [graphics] [packages] [pgfkeys]
 

asked by Hafid Boukhoulda https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=91130 8 votes

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

4.7.1.6 Dimension too large error (apparently no calculation involved)

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=417691

From what I have read so far, a Dimension too large! is caused by a result or an intermediate calculation that goes beyond the limit of 16384. 
I get this error with this document (note: the  ... 
[tikz-pgf] [tikz-angles]
 

asked by zezollo https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=81138 8 votes

answered by Ulrike Fischer https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=2388 8 votes

4.7.1.7 How to fill a shape defined by arcs?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=417595

I have three intersecting arcs, and I want to fill the region inside the intersection points. 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{tikz} 
\begin{document} 
\begin{figure}[htbp] 
\centering 
... 
[tikz-pgf] [draw] [arc]
 

asked by padawan https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=50293 8 votes

answered by marmot https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=121799 5 votes