4.35.1 Top new questions this week

4.35.1.1 Why is LaTeX missing $ when I have no mathematical equation and how do I center the table?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=453165

I am new to LaTeX. However, I don't know why this code is not working: 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} 
\usepackage[english]{babel} 
\usepackage[usenames, dvipsnames]{color} 
... 
[tables]
 

asked by Omar113 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=171280 13 votes

answered by Mico https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=5001 23 votes

4.35.1.2 Create a Handwriting environment for both text and Math

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=453429

I would like to create an environment that would allow me to have parts of a document in "Handwriting mode". 
So the objective would be to be able to type the following in the source code : 
... 
[math-mode] [fonts] [environments] [text]
 

asked by ClA~(c)ment Moissard https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=171583 12 votes

answered by jfbu https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=4686 19 votes

4.35.1.3 Can someone help me draw this?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=453161

Been trying to write the code for this but have been unsuccessful so far and I am on out of time to try to make it work. 
Stuff I had written till now. 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{tikz}  ... 
[tikz-pgf] [graphs]
                                                                                  

                                                                                  
 

asked by Huko https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=171447 11 votes

answered by Zarko https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=18189 9 votes

4.35.1.4 Why doesn't \xspace always insert a following space when that is expected?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=453608

In the MWE, \xspace correctly inserts a space in the first test of \foo, but not in the second test when it is followed by an en-dash. 
Is there a fix for this? 
\documentclass{article} 
... 
[xspace]
 

asked by alephzero https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=72690 9 votes

answered by Phelype Oleinik https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=134574 14 votes

4.35.1.5 How to fill space between dotted lines in tikz picture?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=453191

I'm trying to fill an area between two dotted lines. I tried a lot of options, but none of them seem to work. 
I labeled the areas I need with the specific colors to fill. My current code is: 
... 
[tikz-pgf] [intersections] [fillbetween] [fill]
 

asked by DonFangzahn https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=171465 9 votes

answered by marmot https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=121799 10 votes

4.35.1.6 representing an arithmetic rope

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=452831

I'd like to include figures representing different uses for an arithmetic rope throughout the document to explain the duodecimal system and the application in architecture. The distance between knots  ... 
[tikz-pgf] [pstricks] [shapes]
 

asked by Bart https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=42348 9 votes

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

4.35.1.7 pgf's and pstricks's opacity is not working

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=453780

I've recently upgraded  (on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS) TexLive 2016 to 2017. The problem that came up is that the opacity of tikz (pgf) and of pstricks pictures is not working in .ps and .pdf files after  ... 
[tikz-pgf] [pstricks] [transparency] [ghostscript] [ps2pdf]
 

asked by Grigorios Kostakos https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=171740 8 votes

answered by AlexG https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=1053 7 votes