\pi day riddles for LaTeX users
Getting ducks in example images
About the use of curly braces
TikZ: How to draw a pattern at the border of a tikz path
How to declare a "bracket-style" math operator
Shortening and decorating a path
equation alignment in a two-column table
\pi day riddles for LaTeX users https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=420083
This is a maybe not too serious question, but in order to honor \pi day I'd like to collect a set of LaTeX riddles. The aim is to encourage newcomers to learn some very basic LaTeX commands. Here is ... [fun]
asked by marmot https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=121799 22
votes answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=4427 14
votes Getting ducks in example images https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=419751
This question led to a new package: duckuments There are lots of cool example pictures in LaTeX. As far as I'm aware there aren't any good example duck images ;-( Having ducks in the example ... [graphics] [fun] [examples] [tikzducks]
asked by ThorbjA~,rn E. K. Christensen https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=125223
22 votes answered by Ulrike Fischer https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=2388
19 votes About the use of curly braces https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=420197
Although I use LaTeX a lot, I still have a lot to learn about it, and I still have many questions which remain unanswered. One in particular bothers me: when and why must I use curly brackets when ... [math-mode] [math-operators] [syntax]
asked by Samuel Diebolt https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=74462
13 votes answered by barbara beeton https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=579
15 votes TikZ: How to draw a pattern at the border of a tikz path https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=419533
I want to draw the shapes of airspaces according to the german VFR map style and I have problems with the restricted areas, ED-R44 in this picture: I already found out how to do the airspace A and ... [tikz-pgf] [pattern]
asked by TobiBS https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=156791 11
votes answered by marmot https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=121799
6 votes How to declare a "bracket-style" math operator https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=419860
This has most likely been asked before, but I wasn't able to articulate the question in a way that yielded relevant search results. How do you declare a math operator to simplify an expression such ... [math-mode]
asked by tmakino https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=149335 10
votes answered by Mico https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=5001 14
votes Shortening and decorating a path https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=419482
Placing an arrow as decoration on a path which has been shortened leads to a misplacement of the arrow. This is potentially emphasized if the looseness key has been used. In this other question (and ... [tikz-pgf] [pgf-decorations]
asked by Axel Krypton https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=128737
7 votes answered by marmot https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=121799
2 votes equation alignment in a two-column table https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=420230
I am having trouble making a table of equations line up properly. I would like to align the '=' sign for the Division row, but when I do I end up with something like this: Here is the code I ... [tables] [horizontal-alignment] [equations] [arrays]
asked by UNRMath https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=157188 6
votes answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=4427 5
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