5.3.1 Top new questions this week

5.3.1.1 Best (as of 2019) way to install LaTeX

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=470265

I would like to encourage my students to use LaTeX for their homework. I can make a template for them to learn basic math symbols. The most difficult thing is recommending a way to install LaTeX. I  ... 
[installing]
 

asked by Michael https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=123179 19 votes

answered by Paul Stanley https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=5404 21 votes

5.3.1.2 Reproducing a figure in tikz with text and arrows flowing round in a circle

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=469860

I want to reproduce the following figure with tikz (because there is a typo in the text in this figure). 
My tikz code is (borrowed from here) 
\documentclass[tikz,border=10pt]{standalone} 
... 
[tikz-pgf] [decorations]
 

asked by MYaseen208 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=4821 15 votes

answered by marmot https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=121799 18 votes

5.3.1.3 A curious dependency between \newcommand and curly braces

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=469994

An example is a bit artificial, but the point is that I do not understand why 
{} influence the outcome of \newcommand in the way described below. 
Consider the following definition: 
... 
[macros] [braces] [grouping]
 

asked by Mad Hatter https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=24864 12 votes

answered by David Carlisle https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=1090 19 votes

5.3.1.4 Drawing Shapes on Graphs

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=470337

I am trying to draw a regular pentagon on a graph (I need to add more stuff to it, so having the axis is desirable), but when I try to draw the two together they do not line up. Here is my code: 
... 
[tikz-pgf] [shapes]
 

asked by Aiden Kenny https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=169856 9 votes

answered by Zarko https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=18189 8 votes

5.3.1.5 tabularx inside tcolorbox not centered properly

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=470024

I am trying to put a tabularx inside a tcolorbox but it's not centered properly, it's shifted slightly to the right. Here is the code I am using. I am using figure environment for the caption. Is  ... 
[tables] [tabularx] [tcolorbox]
 

asked by Tanton https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=174441 9 votes

answered by Mico https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=5001 11 votes

5.3.1.6 TikZ matrix, why doesn't "every even row" work with "row sep" option?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=469954

Please consider the following mwe: 
\documentclass[tikz, margin=3mm]{standalone} 
\usetikzlibrary{matrix} 
\begin{document} 
\begin{tikzpicture} 
\matrix (m) [matrix of math nodes, 
... 
[tikz-matrix]
 

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

answered by Hood Chatham https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=23866 7 votes

5.3.1.7 How to change \foreach to omit a certain multiple

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=469835

I hope the solution to my problem is not too complicated or tedious. I am drawing a diagram which has one nuisance in it: 
Every time the sine curve touches the axis TiKz tries to draw a line of 0  ... 
[tikz-pgf] [tikz-3dplot]
 

asked by sab hoque https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=166730 9 votes

answered by marmot https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=121799 5 votes