6.74.1 Top new questions this week

6.74.1.1 Like \ell but for j

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=575481

I'm in a slightly annoying situation where I've used the letter j as an index, but now also want to use a lower case j for something else. Ideally I wouldn't want to do that, but changing either would ... 
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asked by Nathaniel https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=12461 12 votes

answered by Davislor https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=61644 14 votes

6.74.1.2 Dance of Venus (and variations) in TikZ/PGF

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=575986

If we look down upon the Solar System in a geocentric model, the Sun and all the planets will be orbiting the Earth. In this model, the Earth is at the center of the universe. Let us focus on two ... 
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asked by Amir Hossein https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=48840 10 votes

answered by sgmoye https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=11131 19 votes

6.74.1.3 How to write a real "Hello World" program

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=575385

One of the easiest tasks in almost all programming languages is to write a program that writes "Hello World" into the terminal. Something similar in TeX is: 
tex '\empty Hello world! \bye' 
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asked by M0M0 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=228576 8 votes

answered by Phelype Oleinik https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=134574 17 votes

6.74.1.4 How to draw an irregular shape with residues connected to the contour?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=575200

I'm trying to draw on LaTeX some steps of a demonstration of the Residue Theorem, and I wanted to explicitly show what are the contour and the poles that I'm using. Using the Tikz package, I was able ... 
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asked by Gabriel Negrini https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=231070 8 votes

answered by Sandy G https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125871 11 votes

6.74.1.5 Colors in underbrace and overbrace - strange behaviour

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=575851

There is a strange inconsistency between \overbrace and \underbrace when one wishes to have the associated text (above or below) in a different color. 
\underbrace behaves as expected and \overbrace ... 
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asked by JMFG https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=231414 7 votes

answered by leandriis https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=134144 6 votes

6.74.1.6 A mode to produce a document in one language or the other

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=575611

He is my issue: I need to keep many documents (CV, research statement, research projects, list of abstracts, etc.) updated and ready to be sent for applications, sometimes in quite a rush. However, ... 
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asked by Desiderius Severus https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=59761 7 votes

answered by Davislor https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=61644 8 votes

6.74.1.7 Why does using \biggl <stuff> \biggl not throw an error?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=575828

I consider myself a recovering user of \left...\right and stumbled onto this issue today. I have a \virtualparens command that puts light gray parentheses around its argument. I can provide optional ... 
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asked by LaTeXereXeTaL https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=218142 7 votes

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