4.40.1 Top new questions this week

4.40.1.1 How long did it take for Donald Knuth to create/design the font family of CM?

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I want to know how long exactly did it take for Donald Knuth to create/design the font family of CM? (please answer based on authentic references.) Did the designing process take more than 10 years  ... 
[metafont] [computer-modern] [tex-history]
 

asked by Qaher https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=71461 18 votes

answered by Thruston https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=15036 20 votes

4.40.1.2 Easy way to generate Rubik's cube diagrams

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=459254

Taking inspiration from Playing around with a Rubik's Cube in TikZ, I want to generate diagrams of Rubik's cubes that look like this 
Using a solution from Playing around with a Rubik's Cube  ... 
[tikz-pgf]
 

asked by Sam https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=174315 17 votes

answered by marmot https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=121799 24 votes

4.40.1.3 What are the benefits of PGFPlots/TikZ compared to importing PDF?

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What are the benefits of using tools like pgfplots or tikz directly in LaTeX compared to importing PDF/PGF generated by say matplotlib? 
This answer believed that the main reason is to match the plots  ... 
[tikz-pgf] [pgfplots] [graphics] [plot]
 

asked by Junnan https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=174623 16 votes

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

4.40.1.4 How do I create a PDF document whose height exactly matches the contents?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=459459

I have a document that is about 1/3 to 1/2 page long. I want to compile it to a PDF document. That PDF document will be included in another document, so I want it to be short - it should contain only  ... 
[pdf] [include] [page]
 

asked by Erel Segal-Halevi https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=20929 12 votes

answered by samcarter https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=36296 12 votes

4.40.1.5 How to draw a Cayley table

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=459639

I'm trying to make a Cayley table like the one in the following question, but I don't want the labels, for example, on top (Capacity) and on the left side (the w's and v's). I just would like to  ... 
[tables]
 

asked by A.E https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=174474 11 votes

answered by GiuTeX https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=120984 9 votes

4.40.1.6 \savebox within tikzpicture results in an empty \savebox

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Using \savebox within a tikzpicture environment seems wipe out the content of the \savebox. 
In the MWE below, the following macros define, measure and display the size of a \savebox: 
... 
[tikz-pgf] [boxes] [scoping] [box]
 

asked by Peter Grill https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=4301 10 votes

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

4.40.1.7 Typesetting d'Alembertian symbol

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=459167

I've seen that usually, the d'Alembertian is written using the command \Box, however, this displays a square with all sides identical. I would like to write it in this other way: 
in which, the  ... 
[symbols] [typography]
 

asked by Janstillerion https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=174286 10 votes

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=4427 11 votes