6.2.1 Top new questions this week

6.2.1.1 How to fill letters only partially?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=524069

\documentclass[border=30pt]{standalone} 
\usepackage[dvipsnames,x11names]{xcolor} 
\definecolor{bittersweet}{HTML}{FE6F5E} 
\usepackage{tikz} 
\usetikzlibrary{calc,positioning} 
... 
[tikz-pgf]
 

asked by kalakay https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=35874 19 votes

answered by frougon https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=73317 28 votes

6.2.1.2 Creating a macro that can selectively format capital letters

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=524021

For a project my partner and I are working on, our text includes a great number of words in mixed lowercase and smallcaps: 
We're currently doing this with a rather clunky macro: 
... 
[macros] [formatting] [capitalization] [small-caps]
 

asked by Sparksbet https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=168743 15 votes

answered by Ralf Stubner https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=140850 9 votes

6.2.1.3 How to interpret ``underfull'' warnings in alignment?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=523676

I'm trying to figure out why there are warnings for 125pt case of AT&T table example in TeXbook. While trying to understand the meaning of these warnings, I came across p.302 of TeXbook, that  ... 
[tex-core] [alignment]
 

asked by Igor Liferenko https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=70900 10 votes

answered by David Carlisle https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1090 10 votes

6.2.1.4 What happened to expl3's case changing functions? (e.g. \tl_upper_case:n and \tl_lower_case:n)

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=524346

I had some expl3 code which relied on \tl_upper_case:n to do some expandable case changing. However today I updated my TeX distribution and the code now throws an error: 
! LaTeX3 Error:  ... 
[expl3] [latex3] [token-lists]
 

asked by Phelype Oleinik https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=134574 9 votes

answered by Phelype Oleinik https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=134574 9 votes

6.2.1.5 How can I draw the circle is inscribed in triangle in 3D?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=523681

I am trying to draw an inscribed circle of a triangle in 3D. If the vertices lie on the plane Oxy, I tried 
\documentclass[12pt, border = 1mm,tikz]{standalone} 
\usepackage{tikz-3dplot} 
... 
[tikz-3dplot]
 

asked by minhthien_2016 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=15080 8 votes

answered by SchrA~\[Paragraph]dinger's cat https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=194703 10 votes

6.2.1.6 How to put a box around text and add a string?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=523821

I have some \items that I would like to put in a box. 
I would like the box to have 2 arguments that I can pass 
color of the box 
string for the box 
Relevant Research: 
I couldn't find anything  ... 
[box]
 

asked by 3kstc https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=150922 7 votes

answered by David Purton https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=87678 8 votes

6.2.1.7 EB Garamond: Context Alternatives, but no swashy Q.long

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=524122

In a book xetex document, I am using EB Garamond in the older version of Georg Duffner (see egregs answer here: Accessing the short-arched f in EB Garamond). 
It has the calt feature (contextual  ... 
[fonts] [xetex] [ebgaramond]
 

asked by shevek https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=73511 6 votes

answered by ThA~(c)rA~..se https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=7883 10 votes