5.7.1 Top new questions this week

5.7.1.1 Simulating paintbrush strokes in TikZ

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=475141

I am wondering if there exists a way to simulate paintbrush strokes in TikZ when filling in a shape. So given the following: 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{tikz} 
\begin{document} 
... 
[tikz-pgf]
 

asked by bfootdav https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=25729 23 votes

answered by Symbol 1 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=51022 25 votes

5.7.1.2 Animate an airplane in Beamer

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=475463

For my (beamer) presentation (relating to airplanes) I want an animation of an airplane. I was hoping there would be a way for the airplane to move across the screen (or any other motion will do as  ... 
[beamer] [animations]
 

asked by GermanShepherd https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=59288 14 votes

answered by AlexG https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=1053 19 votes

5.7.1.3 Combine `map` and `use` expl3 macros

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=475170

I'm trying to build a macro 
that processes a comma-separated-list of elements 
so that: 
\MapAndUse{a,b,c} 
would produce: 
My first intuition is to use a expl3 combination 
of \seq_map* to process  ... 
[macros] [expl3] [comma-separated-list] [mapping] [seq]
 

asked by iago-lito https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=72679 10 votes

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=4427 9 votes

5.7.1.4 Drawing a function without knowing its definition

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I don't know TikZ in depth so I barely can play with it. The following is a transfer characteristic of an inverter gate. I have researched on the Internet to find the function's explicit definition  ... 
[tikz-pgf] [graphics] [draw] [tikz-graphdrawing]
 

asked by mandresybilly https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=106159 8 votes

answered by JouleV https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=156344 19 votes

5.7.1.5 Tcolorbox :: sidebyside option gives poor result

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sidebyside option gives poor result... 
without sidebyside, code works well. 
\documentclass[10pt,xcolor={usenames,dvipsnames,svgnames}]{beamer} 
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox} 
... 
[tcolorbox]
 

asked by sandu https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=12135 8 votes

answered by Ignasi https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=1952 5 votes

5.7.1.6 How to draw these kind of adjacent ovals with arrows in latex?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=475698

I am trying to draw this kind of shape with arrows in LaTeX, but I am not able to do it using ellipse or any other shapes in tikz. Can anyone guide me how it can be drawn? 
[tikz-pgf]
                                                                                  

                                                                                  
 

asked by Lauren https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=181914 8 votes

answered by marmot https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=121799 11 votes

5.7.1.7 How to create a cover page like this?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=475597

I saw my Chinese classmate reading a book whose cover page is really fancy, though I dona^\200\231t know the Chinese characters on it. 
How could I create a cover page in my own classnotes like that? 
[tikz-pgf] [covers] [bookcover]
 

asked by user450201 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=156953 8 votes

answered by marmot https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=121799 31 votes