5.13.1 Top new questions this week

5.13.1.1 N.B. ligature in Latex

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=483627

Wikipedia mentions a ligature for NB (nota bene), however I can't seem to find any reference to this in the latex literature. Is there a way to use this ligature in my latex document? 
An example of  ... 
[ligatures]
 

asked by David Poxon https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=78634 13 votes

answered by Mico https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=5001 14 votes

5.13.1.2 How to draw a waving flag in TikZ

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=483459

Let's take the flag of Germany as an example, because the flag is way quite simple and its waving state can be easily drawn "manually". But I am asking about general flag (the flag of any  ... 
[tikz-pgf]
 

asked by JouleV https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=156344 11 votes

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

5.13.1.3 How to format a long polynomial

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I have a long polynomial: 
\documentclass{article} 
%\usepackage{amsmath}% Loaded by mathtools 
\usepackage{mathtools} 
\begin{document} 
$  ... 
[math-mode]
 

asked by Nick https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=139640 10 votes

answered by JouleV https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=156344 15 votes

5.13.1.4 XeLaTeX and pdfLaTeX ignore \hyphenation

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=483678

I'm trying to get all hyphenations that the LaTeX-algorithm gives out. So I'm trying this: 
echo "\\\documentclass{standalone} 
\\\hyphenation{Py-ra-mi-de} 
\\\showhyphens{Pyramide}" | xelatex 
This  ... 
[xetex] [pdftex] [hyphenation]
 

asked by Max Mustermann Junior https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=185273 10 votes

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

5.13.1.5 How to type this arrow in math mode?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=484215

I need an arrow like the following: 
I tried 
\newcommand{\wedgearrow}{\mathrel{/}\joinrel\ssearrow} %stmaryrd 
but it doesn't work well. 
[math-mode] [arrows]
 

asked by Eclipse Sun https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=123292 9 votes

answered by Steven B. Segletes https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=25858 9 votes

5.13.1.6 How to use lstlisting with tcolorbox?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=483289

I want to insert lstlisting inside a tcolorbox which must has a title and title can be hidden whenever I need, also it's top right and bottom left corner will be rounded something like this: 
I  ... 
[listings] [tcolorbox]
                                                                                  

                                                                                  
 

asked by Ravi https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=151842 9 votes

answered by JouleV https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=156344 11 votes

5.13.1.7 Fractional alignment

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=483944

So I have this basic code: 
But the fractional alignment looks awful, any tips to fix this? 
\documentclass[11pt, a4paper]{report} 
\usepackage{bm} 
\usepackage{amsfonts, graphicx, verbatim,  ... 
[fractions] [commath]
 

asked by Maths https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=174474 8 votes

answered by Mico https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=5001 8 votes