5.8.1 Top new questions this week

5.8.1.1 Saint abbreviation

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I would like to know if there is a way to abbreviate "saint" in this french way. A dash is also commonly used. 
My researches are unsuccessful at this point, thanks in advance. 
[xetex] [typography] [french]
 

asked by tugdual https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=175968 16 votes

answered by Skillmon https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=117050 17 votes

5.8.1.2 microtype error with lualatex: "attempt to call field warning a nil value"

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no answer needed, I'm adding the question as reference 
After todays update of luaotfload microtype gives an error when used with lualatex: 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{microtype} 
... 
[luatex] [microtype]
 

asked by Ulrike Fischer https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=2388 11 votes

answered by Ulrike Fischer https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=2388 14 votes

5.8.1.3 Microtypography protrusion with Polish quotation marks

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I use pdfLaTeX with Polish documents. In Polish quotation marks look like this: a^\200\236Lorem'. With package polski, one can use them in LaTeX with ,,Lorem''. All was well, but I recently discovered the  ... 
[microtype] [protrusion] [quotation]
                                                                                  

                                                                                  
 

asked by Franz Wexler https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=182307 10 votes

answered by Henri Menke https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=10995 14 votes

5.8.1.4 Inline Feynman diagrams, Feynman diagrams in equations, very small Feynman diagrams

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I'd like to typeset equations like: 
I have tried this with the tikz-feynman library, but the diagrams generated by it are just way too large, even with the small option (and also just look  ... 
[inline] [feynman]
 

asked by Leonard https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=182155 10 votes

answered by marmot https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=121799 13 votes

5.8.1.5 3D buried view in Tikz

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I want to achieve 3D effect in my picture. This is to show Electron beam lithography followed by lift-off process. I want to make a cross shaped hole in the top layer and fill it with a gray color  ... 
[tikz-pgf] [3d]
 

asked by RD1153 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=80982 9 votes

answered by marmot https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=121799 13 votes

5.8.1.6 Euler and minus sign

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I'm trying to define a macro to typeset Eulers complex e-power with or without a minus sign in its argument. I would like the macro to automatically detect if its argument starts with a -. I have the  ... 
[math-mode] [optional-arguments]
 

asked by Jesse op den Brouw https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=159794 9 votes

answered by Steven B. Segletes https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=25858 7 votes

5.8.1.7 Can polar coordinates cause misalignment in TikZ?

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I'm trying to align two paths using polar coordinates: 
\documentclass[tikz]{standalone} 
\begin{document} 
\begin{tikzpicture} 
\path [fill=blue] (0,0) -- +(-135:5mm) -- ([turn]90:25mm) --  ... 
[tikz-pgf]
 

asked by barbaz https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=6593 8 votes

answered by Kpym https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=9335 8 votes