4.22.1 Top new questions this week

4.22.1.1 TikZ and FIFA WorldCup 2018: Flags of Nations

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=438098

I am a kind of TikZ addict, and also be a fan of football. This time - WorldCup 2018 - is nice change of relaxing by drawing flags of 32 football teams by pure TikZ or TikZ-based codes. Some are easy  ... 
[tikz-pgf] [fun]
 

asked by Black Mild https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=140722 21 votes

answered by J Leon V. https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=154390 12 votes

4.22.1.2 How does TeX look for delimited arguments?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=438359

The following code 
\def\foo#1#2\baz{\#1: -#1- \quad \#2: -#2-} 
1) \foo hello world\baz 
2) \foo supercalifragilistiexpialidocious\baz 
3) \foo a \baz 
4) \foo a\baz 
%5) \foo \baz % error! 
\bye 
... 
[macros] [tex-core]
 

asked by campa https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=82917 16 votes

answered by Manuel https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=21930 15 votes

4.22.1.3 Twin reference in wrong order

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=437869

I have references for two papers written by the same authors in the same year. When I cite them, I see something like this [Landgren et al., 2016a] and [Landgren et al., 2016b]. The problem is that  ... 
[bibtex] [citing]
 

asked by Damaru https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=127921 12 votes

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=4427 13 votes

4.22.1.4 Tabular ignoring optional parameter to \\

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=437581

In a basic tabular environment it seems that the optional parameter to \\ sometime has no effect. For instance, why is there no additional vertical spacing following the highlighted lines even though  ... 
[tables] [spacing] [optional-arguments]
 

asked by Peter Grill https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=4301 11 votes

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

4.22.1.5 How to draw a table 2*1+3*1 in `tabular`:

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=438198

How to draw such table in tabular: 
even in the Word, I can only generate a 6*2 table then merge each column respectively. 
I prefer use the two table method since it is easy to understand and much   ... 
[tabularx]
 

asked by user6703592 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=165619 10 votes

answered by Herbert https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=2478 13 votes

4.22.1.6 Why not catcode11 (letter) but catcode12 (other) is used for verbatim?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=438161

What would happen if catcodes were changed to 11 (letter) instead of 12 (other) in verbatim environment or something similar? Will any problems happen? Or, are there any advantages to use catcode12  ... 
[macros] [tex-core] [verbatim] [catcodes]
 

asked by agnagic https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=80933 9 votes

answered by Ulrich Diez https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=118714 6 votes

4.22.1.7 How to set all counters to dozenal system?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=437734

I would like to page number my document using base 12 but also to number AMS theorems, sections, equationsa^\200\246 the same way. 
What would be the best solution? 
I found this working code to use binary for  ... 
[numbering] [page-numbering]
 

asked by Suponell https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=165644 9 votes

answered by David Carlisle https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=1090 6 votes