4.20.1 Top new questions this week

4.20.1.1 Shading 25 squares within a square using `\foreach`

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=434699

In a square of edge length 5*sqrt(2), I have 45 congruent squares of edge length sqrt(2) drawn. I would like to shade 25 of them - 5 of them in each row. I shaded the 5 squares in the bottom row and  ... 
[tikz-pgf] [foreach]
 

asked by user74973 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=74973 11 votes

answered by Tikzer Woods https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=9335 12 votes

4.20.1.2 Draw Life Wheel

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=434489

I want make a life wheel similar to this: 
I have tried to make one using tikz; however I got stuck in 
I want name like "Career" to be aligned with the perimeter of the circle 
I will want the  ... 
[tikz-pgf]
 

asked by OOzy Pal https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=23436 10 votes

answered by marmot https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=121799 7 votes

4.20.1.3 xparse gobbles character(s) using an optional argument

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=434928

Some recent change of the xparse package or of the LaTeX3 fundament seems to yield some changed behaviour regarding parameter processing. In some situations, at least one character is gobbled where it  ... 
[xparse]
 

asked by Thomas F. Sturm https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=30617 9 votes

4.20.1.4 Why is the "4" missing, even in the PDF?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=434645

On the second line, marked by the beginning of the bracket, there should be a '4'. However, it doesn't show up, not even in the PDF. 
Here is the code: (I am using ShareLaTeX, but the Compiler  ... 
[math-mode] [align] [brackets]
 

asked by Lillien Sabrina Gluch https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=161840 9 votes

answered by Bernard https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=38908 11 votes

4.20.1.5 Add Annotations and Remarks next to Equations

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=434633

for a thesis I am currently writing on, I would like to highlight and explain some mathematical transformations inside the equations (to explain why the transformation holds). Of course, I could  ... 
[math-mode] [equations] [amsmath] [annotations]
 

asked by Unicorn https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=141765 9 votes

answered by moewe https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=35864 8 votes

4.20.1.6 Redefining a letter to itself

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=435278

I have no idea why anyone would actually want to do this, but I want to know how I would do it (for educational purposes). 
Say I make e and active token, and then make it print the character e. 
I  ... 
[characters] [catcodes]
                                                                                  

                                                                                  
 

asked by Andreas Storvik Strauman https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=85834 8 votes

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

4.20.1.7 Citation Style Language vs. biblatex (vs. possibly other "citing-systems"?)

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=434946

What is the ideological difference between CSL and bibtex/biblatex? I know there had been discussion here on how one can use CSL with LaTeX, but how (and why) they differ, and why there should exist  ... 
[biblatex] [bibliographies] [bibtex] [citing]
 

asked by Maximko https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=164209 7 votes

answered by moewe https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=35864 6 votes