1.17.1 Top new questions this week

1.17.1.1 How does \usepackage differ from a simple \include or \input?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/277549/how-does-usepackage-differ-from-a-simple-include-or-input

What does \usepackage do that is different than \input or \include? Does it simply import the commands in the package file to the current document or is it more complicated?
 

- asked by jak123 (25 votes), answered by Will Robertson (34 votes)

1.17.1.2 Why do we need \ldots?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/277405/why-do-we-need-ldots

While trying to understand Chapter 12 of Knuth's TeXbook about Glueing, I run into troubles in understanding why \ldots ends up in looking better than .... It seems to me that the usual period . has  ...
 

- asked by Filippo Alberto Edoardo (17 votes), answered by David Carlisle (18 votes)

1.17.1.3 How do I draw a $\partial$ with a diagonal line through it?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/277366/how-do-i-draw-a-partial-with-a-diagonal-line-through-it

As the title suggests, how do I draw a $\partial$ with a diagonal line through it?
 

- asked by user91705 (15 votes), answered by Mico (19 votes)

1.17.1.4 Generate automatic marginal notes when using a \ref for the first time

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/276891/generate-automatic-marginal-notes-when-using-a-ref-for-the-first-time

I would like to generate a marginal note showing, for example "Fig. 1" the first time I refer to a figure. I would like this to happen too the first time I refer to a Table or to an equation. I would  ...
 

- asked by Denis Cousineau (12 votes), answered by Guho (10 votes)

1.17.1.5 What is Tex's gullet?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/277114/what-is-texs-gullet

Chapter 7 of The TEXbook famously talks of Tex as having 'eyes', 'mouth' and 'stomach' and goes on to talk of Tex's 'digestive processes' and keeps reusing these terms. 
Chapter 8 introduces talk of  ...
 

- asked by Charles Stewart (11 votes), answered by David Carlisle (13 votes)

1.17.1.6 Misunderstanding from l3keys documentation

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/277025/misunderstanding-from-l3keys-documentation

Based on the interface3 documentation and a nice article in TUGboat, Volume 31 (2010), No. 1 called Programming keya^\200\223value in expl3 by Joseph Wright, I have been trying to put together a MWE that will  ...
 

- asked by EngBIRD (10 votes), answered by clemens (8 votes)

1.17.1.7 Algerian flag in Tikz

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/277802/algerian-flag-in-tikz

Here is a code in Tikz of Algerian flag, anyone can help me to make it seems like flying flag? 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{tikz} 
\begin{document} 
...
 

- asked by T. Laadj (9 votes), answered by T. Laadj (8 votes)