5.1.1 Top new questions this week

5.1.1.1 When should the tabularx environment be used or not?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=468363

I asked a question here and egreg replied that the tabularx environment was not the right tool. He solved the problem with the tabular environment. 
Werner didn't use it either. 
In this question Mico  ... 
[tabularx]
 

asked by AndrA~(c)C https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=138900 12 votes

answered by TeXnician https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=124577 15 votes

5.1.1.2 Drawing a half-full bottle in TikZ

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=468012

I want to fill half of the bottle. I tried these kind of commands: 
%\filldraw[color=black!100, fill=cyan!30, very thick](-3,-2.4) arc (180:230:2.5) .. controls (-2,-5) and (-1.9,-5.2) .. (-1.8,-5.5)  ... 
[tikz-pgf] [draw] [fill]
 

asked by Rageful https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=164215 11 votes

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

5.1.1.3 Improving alignment of signed fractions in table

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=467894

I would like to find a way to better align signed fractions in a table. Take the following example: 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{amsmath} 
\usepackage{booktabs} 
\begin{document} 
... 
[tables] [math-mode] [formatting] [vertical-alignment] [amsmath]
 

asked by user1362373 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=18181 10 votes

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

5.1.1.4 Brownian motion and rotated normal distribution

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=468312

I found this interesting and (I believe) quite pedagogic representation of a brownian motion and its related normal distribution at a specific time forward. 
Tikz Brownian motion explains how to  ... 
[tikz-pgf]
 

asked by Julien-Elie Taieb https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=163874 9 votes

answered by marmot https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=121799 9 votes

5.1.1.5 How to get symbols on the lines of a table

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=468117

I want to generate a table like this with latex. Can you help? 
I can write a normal table as below, but have no idea how to create those symbols on the lines. 
\begin{table}[htbp] 
\centering 
... 
[tables] [symbols]
 

asked by mucalinda https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=178671 9 votes

answered by caverac https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=152462 15 votes

5.1.1.6 marking end of words in luatex - problem with math

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=468153

I'm trying to mark the end of "words" (including punctuation) with luatex callbacks. (At the end I want to inject space chars at this positions, but the example uses rules for the visualization). 
... 
[math-mode] [luatex] [callback]
 

asked by Ulrike Fischer https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=2388 9 votes

answered by michal.h21 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=2891 7 votes

5.1.1.7 Brackets with the same linewidth

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=467940

I want to make a matrix whose entries are matrices of different size. 
If I use \left[ and \right] for the entries, the line-widths of the brackets are unequal, when the inner matrices are of uneven  ... 
[matrices] [brackets]
                                                                                  

                                                                                  
 

asked by tommsch https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=111310 9 votes

answered by CarLaTeX https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=101651 9 votes