7.27.1 Top new questions this week

7.27.1.1 How can I draw this complex table in LaTeX?

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How can I draw the following table in LaTeX? 
I tried this code, but it was not so good: 
\documentclass[12pt]{article} 
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} 
\usepackage{geometry} 
\geometry{a4paper,left=3.5cm,... 
[tables]
 

asked by Jaden https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=236054 16 votes

answered by Mico https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5001 35 votes

7.27.1.2 What is the appropriate methodology to deal with figures in LaTeX to prevent fighting it all the time?

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I am writing a two-column paper and am trying to add images into it. I have been advised to just let LaTeX do its thing with the figures, but I find it generates large blank sections in many parts of ... 
[floats] [formatting] [multicolumn]
 

asked by Makogan https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=134599 13 votes

answered by Nayunis https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=116497 23 votes

7.27.1.3 Wrong alignment with microtype: "(3D)" is too far left; inside enumerate. Is it by design?

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The package microtype is meant to make small improvements to the final look of a LaTeX document. According to an answer to Should I load microtype with pdflatex? and a comment beneath the answer, one ... 
[horizontal-alignment] [lists] [enumerate] [enumitem] [microtype]
 

asked by Linear Christmas https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=116907 12 votes

answered by Steven B. Segletes https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=25858 6 votes

7.27.1.4 How to define von Neumann natural numbers (newcommand, with for loop)?

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How can I define a new command, \natset[1]{#1}, which gives an output as follows? 
(a^\210\205 = \varnothing); intended use is in math-mode, e.g. $\natset[1]{#1}$. The braces are the things one usually gets ... 
[loops] [variable] [renewcommand]
 

asked by Linear Christmas https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=116907 11 votes

answered by David Carlisle https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1090 20 votes

7.27.1.5 Is there an incompatibility between the new version 2021 of babel and Latex 3?

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Indeed, the following macro \NewDocumentCommand{\xsameword}{m} written by @nox in his answer here, has a compile-time error. 
! Missing \endcsname inserted. 
<to be read again> 
... 
[babel] [latex3]
 

asked by AndrA~(c)C https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=138900 8 votes

answered by Ulrike Fischer https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2388 10 votes

7.27.1.6 Aligning ducks and their labels in a tree

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I'm building a tree of labelled tikzducks. 
An MWE would be 
\documentclass{scrartcl} 
\usepackage{tikz} 
\usetikzlibrary{ducks} 
\begin{document} 
\begin{tikzpicture} [level distance=4cm, sibling ... 
[tikz-pgf] [vertical-alignment] [labels] [trees] [tikzducks]
 

asked by Olaf Musch https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=218760 7 votes

answered by Zarko https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=18189 6 votes

7.27.1.7 Tikz Graph How to drop shadow like in figure

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I'm able to generate a tikz node with shadow (lower right) on the node, but this is different than shading not the entire node, but just the circle and edges like in the picture below. 
The shadow on ... 
[tikz-pgf] [graphs] [shadows]
 

asked by Antonio Caruso https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=215903 7 votes

answered by hpekristiansen https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=8650 7 votes