6.71.1 Top new questions this week

6.71.1.1 What's the appeal of Overleaf?

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Please to forgive the somewhat broad question, but what exactly is the deal with and appeal of Overleaf & Co.? What do I get out of it that I would not from the local LaTeX distribution of my ... 
[overleaf]
 

asked by Ingmar https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=26614 41 votes

answered by LaTeXereXeTaL https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=218142 63 votes

6.71.1.2 How can I draw a water lily in LaTeX?

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I wonder, can anyone draw a picture like this? 
I tried, but I'm at the very beginning... There should be four semicircles and one full circle. I've managed to draw only two of them so far. Here's my ... 
[tikz-pgf] [asymptote] [circles]
 

asked by JoudaBouda https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=230245 19 votes

answered by Black Mild https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=140722 14 votes

6.71.1.3 LaTeX prehistory

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I came into LaTeX in the 80s and my copy of LaTeX: A Document Preparation System already described LaTeX 2.09. I'm curious if anyone here knows about the versions of LaTeX that preceded that. What ... 
[tex-history] [latex-2.09]
 

asked by Don Hosek https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=202780 17 votes

answered by David Carlisle https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1090 15 votes

6.71.1.4 How to create a new math symbol?

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How can I create my own scalable math operator with limits just like the sum symbol? Specifically I want to invent a "concatenation" symbol that looks alike to: "[". For example I ... 
[symbols] [math-operators]
 

asked by Leonardo Vanni https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=230383 15 votes

answered by Sandy G https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125871 37 votes

6.71.1.5 Beamer: text that looks like enumerate bullet

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The Rochester theme styles enumerate bullets nicely using a dark square with white text. For example, the MWE 
\documentclass[20pt]{beamer} 
\usetheme[height=50pt]{Rochester} 
\begin{document} 
\... 
[beamer] [enumerate]
 

asked by japreiss https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=167591 11 votes

answered by Werner https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5764 11 votes

6.71.1.6 Trouble with xcoffins in TL2020

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Consider the following MWE: 
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article} 
\usepackage{xcoffins} 
\NewCoffin\lcoffin 
\NewCoffin\fcoffin 
\parindent=0pt 
\begin{document} 
\fbox{\parbox{.25\textwidth}{\begin{... 
[texlive] [latex3] [texlive-2020] [xcoffins]
                                                                                  

                                                                                  
 

asked by cfr https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=39222 9 votes

answered by David Carlisle https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1090 6 votes

6.71.1.7 Square bracket indicating "A or B or C"

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How can I write $A.B.C=0$ equivalent to $A=0$ or $B=0$ or $C=0$ in this form? 
I am a newbie in latex. I would like to write an expression such as the following 
How can I do that? Thank you very much! 
[equations] [brackets]
 

asked by Cathy https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=230636 7 votes

answered by Lazy squirrel https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=230294 10 votes