4.17.1 Top new questions this week

4.17.1.1 upright italics (math mode)?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=431740

Knuth's beautiful CMU font has many variants which are accessible from LaTeX: 
\textrm,\mathrm - roman (default) 
\textit,\mathit - italics 
\textbf,\mathbf - bold 
\textsc - small caps 
\textsl -  ... 
[fonts]
 

asked by Jesse Knight https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=111678 14 votes

answered by David Carlisle https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=1090 19 votes

4.17.1.2 Which way of using parentheses looks better?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=431525

I feel like the parentheses look strange here: 
\begin{equation} 
uv=4\left(\frac{a}{2}\right)^2\left(\frac{b}{2}\right)^2= 
4\left(\frac{s}{2}\right)^2\left(\frac{t}{2}\right)^2 
\end{equation} 
Do  ... 
[parentheses]
 

asked by Haoran Chen https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=143870 14 votes

answered by angrydust https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=133724 19 votes

4.17.1.3 Placing node right after end of path in Tikz

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=431650

I'd like to place a label (most of the times a single letter) right after the end of a line. That is, the node should be moved into the direction of the line from its endpoint, just as far that is  ... 
[tikz-pgf] [positioning] [tikz-node]
 

asked by Andi Bauer https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=163063 11 votes

answered by Rmano https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=38080 6 votes

4.17.1.4 Spikes around circle using tikzpicture

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=431770

Recently I have been mailing with a lector on the institute of Niels Bohr in Copenhagen regarding a picture written in LaTeX of two inertialframes. He made a figure that looks like this: 
He used the  ... 
[tikz-pgf]
 

asked by Cazo https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=151617 10 votes

answered by samcarter https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=36296 11 votes

4.17.1.5 Matrix in TikZ and Equation

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=431119

The following code draw the matrix I want: 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{tikz} 
\usetikzlibrary{matrix,decorations.pathreplacing, calc, positioning} 
\begin{document} 
\begin{tikzpicture} 
\matrix  ... 
[tikz-pgf] [equations] [alignment]
 

asked by MaPo https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=59757 9 votes

answered by TorbjA~,rn T. https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=586 8 votes

4.17.1.6 How can I preserve whitespaces at line endings in listings?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=431661

I want to display a Whitespace program (an esoteric programming language) in a listing. Even with keepspaces=true, spaces at line endings are discarded (and lines only consisting of whitespaces at the  ... 
[listings] [white-space]
                                                                                  

                                                                                  
 

asked by Matthias https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=163067 8 votes

answered by David Carlisle https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=1090 8 votes

4.17.1.7 Help me to typset large Go boards

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=431443

I have need to typeset some very large Go boards, much larger than normal 19x19 boards, as part of a project I am undertaking in infinite Go, similar to my projects in infinite chess. Can you help me  ... 
[go] [igo]
 

asked by JDH https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=1357 8 votes

answered by Paul Gaborit https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=14500 9 votes