4.25.1 Top new questions this week

4.25.1.1 Voltameter in TeX?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=441977

Hello I wanted to draw a Hofmann voltameter in TikZ like in this image: 
Unfortunately, there are a lot of curves and shapes that are tedious to draw. Is there an easy way to draw it or do I have to  ... 
[tikz-pgf]
 

asked by sab hoque https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=166730 45 votes

answered by Max Snippe https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=74459 129 votes

4.25.1.2 How to add solids in TikZ

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=442281

I made this diagram in tikz 
\begin{tikzpicture}[xscale=0.4,yscale=0.4] 
\draw (0,4) -- (10,4); 
\draw (0,6) -- (10,6); 
\draw (8,4.75) -- (19.75,4.75) -- (19.75,-5.25); 
\draw (8,5.25) -- (20.25,5.25)  ... 
[tikz-pgf]
 

asked by sab hoque https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=166730 9 votes

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

4.25.1.3 Undefined sequence error with calligraphy tikz library

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=442132

The following MWE is from calligraphy's manual (p.9) with Joseph Wright's workaround for the library's use of obsolete functions: 
\documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone} 
\usepackage{tikz} 
... 
[tikz-pgf] [errors] [expl3] [tikzlibrary] [calligraphy]
 

asked by cfr https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=39222 8 votes

answered by Joseph Wright https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=73 10 votes

4.25.1.4 How to align consecutive \leaders properly?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=442012

Ia^\200\231m trying to build a construct with a box of a fixed filled with \leaders followed by \leaders with \hfill. However at the moment there is a little gap between these two making the pattern irregular,  ... 
[boxes] [leaders]
 

asked by Tobi https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=4918 8 votes

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=4427 3 votes

4.25.1.5 Draw a 3D right-handed frame with good-looking origin

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=442158

I am using tikz-3dplot a lot to draw coordinate systems (often multiple in one drawing) and I am not satisfied with how the 'origin' looks. For example, 
\documentclass[tikz]{standalone} 
... 
[tikz-pgf] [tikz-styles] [tikz-3dplot]
 

asked by Max Snippe https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=74459 7 votes

answered by Max Snippe https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=74459 7 votes

4.25.1.6 Beamer notes and amsmath environments

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=440599

I am considering a beamer presentation with notes at the right. To establish a better connection between the notes and the content they are referring to, I modified the \notes command in such a way  ... 
[beamer] [amsmath]
                                                                                  

                                                                                  
 

asked by Benjamin Desef https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=32357 7 votes

answered by Circumscribe https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=156366 5 votes

4.25.1.7 Create simple list of trees in TikZ

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=441916

I generated this image in Inkscape because I don't know enough TikZ to write a description of it in that language, but given the amount of examples of TikZ trees available online, it strikes me as  ... 
[tikz-trees]
 

asked by Anaphory https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=14483 7 votes

answered by TorbjA~,rn T. https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=586 5 votes