6.21.1 Top new questions this week

6.21.1.1 A problem on foreach

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=543256

I want to get a picture like this. 
The foreach command in the following code doesn't seem right. How should it be? 
\documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone} 
\usepackage{tikz} 
\usetikzlibrary{calc} 
... 
[tikz-pgf] [loops]
 

asked by kalakay https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=35874 12 votes

answered by SchrA~\[Paragraph]dinger's cat https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=194703 12 votes

6.21.1.2 Accurate 3d function plot near domain border

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=542616

I'm trying to plot this function 
which should render as something like this (as generated by CalcPlot3D) 
Problem is, I can't get pgfplots to generate something similar even with a pretty big  ... 
[tikz-pgf] [pgfplots] [3d]
 

asked by ceres-c https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=206062 6 votes

answered by SchrA~\[Paragraph]dinger's cat https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=194703 11 votes

6.21.1.3 Using \let with \csname inside a macro

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=543592

So, I was looking for a way to set some commands to one of a few alternative definitions (i.e. setting \mycommand to one version of the command or others with a simple command invocation), and was  ... 
[macros] [csname] [let]
 

asked by verglasz https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=212508 5 votes

answered by Steven B. Segletes https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=25858 5 votes

6.21.1.4 How do I stack accents in ancient Greek?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=543601

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 
\cprotect\subsubsection{\verb|I want to type, in a XeLaTeX document, the following epigraph|} 
\url{https://epigraphy.packhum.org/text/145737?hs=50-58} 
 
\begin{TEXTWinline} 
The problem is (for example) in the word inside the red rectangle, which is  ... 
[fonts] [xetex] [unicode] [accents] [greek]
 

asked by mmj https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=28685 5 votes

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4427 6 votes

6.21.1.5 Defining a PGF shape

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=543569

I am fairly new to using tikz but I haven't found a library with the shapes I am looking for. my end goal is to make a library like the circuits library but for thermodynamic systems. I have been  ... 
[tikz-pgf]
 

asked by nbutler3912 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=215308 5 votes

answered by SchrA~\[Paragraph]dinger's cat https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=194703 6 votes

6.21.1.6 Use counter before its value is set

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=543209

I'd like to use a counter in the text which however is only set at a later point. Like so: 
\newcounter{howmany} 
There are \thehowmany items in this list: 
\begin{enumerate} 
\item one 
\item two 
... 
[counters]
                                                                                  

                                                                                  
 

asked by rfl https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=215136 5 votes

answered by frougon https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=73317 6 votes

6.21.1.7 URW-Garamond's license and PDF documents embedding it

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=542515

I'm a fan of Garamond fonts and I even worked a little bit a few years ago on an adaptation of URW Garamond No. 8 to OpenType. 
Despite my work not going further, I see that garamondx is what I wanted  ... 
[licensing] [garamond]
 

asked by rbrito https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=8048 5 votes

answered by Paul Stanley https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5404 7 votes