6.39.1 Top new questions this week

6.39.1.1 Reasons not to use \newcommand  ...   (with double curly braces)

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Which are the reasons not to always use \newcommand{\stuffa}{{STUFF}} instead of \newcommand{\stuffb}{STUFF}? In which cases would the former be a bad idea? 
The reason I am considering doing this is  ... 
[macros] [best-practices]
 

asked by jhin https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=64293 10 votes

answered by David Carlisle https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1090 23 votes

6.39.1.2 How to produce the symbol E`\[Paragraph] in pdfLaTeX?

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I coudn't find this symbol in the comprehensive latex symbol list that looks like a t with a curl. Tried to use detexify with no luck either. I don't even know it's name. Can anyone help me? Thanks! 
[symbols]
 

asked by pablos https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=52688 7 votes

answered by Marcel KrA~\274ger https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=80496 12 votes

6.39.1.3 Map arbitrary operation on zipped iteration over two comma-separated lists

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I am trying without success to combine these two approaches into something powerful that would allow me to zip-iterate over two lists and do arbitrary cool things: 
\zip{a,b,c}{1,2,3}{#1-#2 } 
would  ... 
[expl3] [loops] [mapping]
 

asked by iago-lito 'considering leaving https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=72679 7 votes

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4427 4 votes

6.39.1.4 How can I get the height of a TikZ node and store it in a length?

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I need to know the height of a TikZ node and store it in a length so it can later be used by other commands and reference this exact dynamic length. 
So here is an MWE that illustrates what I want to  ... 
[tikz-pgf] [height] [measure]
 

asked by TobiBS https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=156791 7 votes

answered by ZhiyuanLck https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=201158 8 votes

6.39.1.5 Store URLs in a macro without replaceing # and %

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How can I store a URL in a macro if the URL has a # and/or a % in it?  The MWE below works fine for the first two, but not the third one. 
Notes: 
One solution is to replace the # with \string# and  ... 
[hyperref] [urls]
 

asked by Peter Grill https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4301 7 votes

answered by moewe https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=35864 4 votes

6.39.1.6 How to improve this (added hatching)

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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,openany]{book} 
\usepackage{tikz} 
\usepackage{pgfplots} 
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.15} 
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,amsthm} 
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 
\usepgfplotslibrary{fillbetween} 
... 
[tikz-pgf] [asymptote]
 

asked by linda Oiladali https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=209584 7 votes

answered by LaTeXdraw-com https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=216225 6 votes

6.39.1.7 How can I make code of tikzpicture to plot the graph of $\sin x$ as shown in the figure?

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I want to plot the graph of sin(x), getting the degrees on the x-axis as shown in the figure. I tried like this, but it is not like what I want. Can someone help providing me the code? 
... 
[tikz-pgf] [tikz-styles] [tikz-cd]
 

asked by Noor Aslam https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=145714 6 votes

answered by TorbjA~,rn T. https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=586 7 votes