4.39.1 Top new questions this week

4.39.1.1 Making motorway with TikZ

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=458370

Consider the following MWE: 
\documentclass[border=5pt,tikz]{standalone} 
\usetikzlibrary{calc} 
\tikzset{ 
car/.style={ 
scale=.5,minimum width=.1cm,minimum height=.5cm,fill=#1 
} 
} 
... 
[tikz-pgf] [nodes] [fun]
 

asked by current_user https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=166311 18 votes

answered by marmot https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=121799 14 votes

4.39.1.2 A circled inequality relation symbol similar to the circled arithmetic operators

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=458913

I'm looking for a variation on the \odot (a circled dot) and \oplus (a circled plus) operators, but for the inequality relations. In other words, I'm looking for the symbol to substitute for the blank  ... 
[symbols]
 

asked by Evan Aad https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=21685 14 votes

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=4427 10 votes

4.39.1.3 PGFPlots: Background color for polar plot

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=458160

I would like to draw a so called "skyplot" in PGFPlots. Skyplots display satellites with their positions over the visible sky. In addition, I would like to draw a background for some specific  ... 
[tikz-pgf] [pgfplots] [polarplot]
                                                                                  

                                                                                  
 

asked by BigMick https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=44696 12 votes

answered by koleygr https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=120578 5 votes

4.39.1.4 How can I determine whether a custom environment is followed by a new paragraph?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=458433

I'm writing a custom command that uses minipages to display its contents: 
\newcommand{\example}[1]{\noindent\begin{minipage}{\linewidth}#1\end{minipage}} 
The spacing around this command should be  ... 
[spacing]
 

asked by ClA~(c)ment https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=1551 11 votes

answered by David Carlisle https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=1090 9 votes

4.39.1.5 Thickness of Bracket and Parenthesis

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=458423

I try to make all the bracket and parenthesis to have the same thickness. 
Normally, the thickness of brackets and parentheses depends on how many lines of array and thing you will have inside them.  ... 
[math-mode] [matrices] [parentheses]
 

asked by kompaui https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=173931 10 votes

4.39.1.6 Detecting if inside a tikzpicture

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=458849

I would like to define the \DrawLine macro below so that it can be invoked from within a {tikzpicture} environment or from outside: 
\newcommand*{\DrawLine}[1]{% 
\IfInTikzPic{}{\tikzpicture[remember  ... 
[tikz-pgf] [grouping]
 

asked by Peter Grill https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=4301 8 votes

answered by Werner https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=5764 6 votes

4.39.1.7 How to add a small rounded rectangle around a word inline

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=458864

I want to add a box with a very light pink background and red border around a word but inline and  within a sentence. 
i.e. something like this (drawn with inkscape) 
I know the mdframed package  ... 
[tikz-pgf] [boxes]
 

asked by smilingbuddha https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=17858 7 votes

answered by AndrA~(c)C https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=138900 7 votes