2.8.1 Top new questions this week

2.8.1.1 How to keep a "rare" ligature from interfering with a "common" ligature?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/296512/how-to-keep-a-rare-ligature-from-interfering-with-a-common-ligature

In ligature-rich Opentype fonts which feature both "common" and "rare" ligatures, it can happen that a "rare" ligature is applied first to one character pair, pre-empting the use of a "common" or  ...
 

- asked by Mico (33 votes), answered by Mico (12 votes)

2.8.1.2 What should be included in "good practices" for Tikz 101

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/297025/what-should-be-included-in-good-practices-for-tikz-101

I have been making graphics (mostly flow graphs) for my presentations, lately, using Powerpoint and most recently LucidChart. I kind of avoided using Latex for this purpose as I had a feeling that its  ...
 

- asked by NAASI (23 votes), answered by Stefan Kottwitz (24 votes)

2.8.1.3 How to only display the mantissa of a number (without the exponent part)

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/296628/how-to-only-display-the-mantissa-of-a-number-without-the-exponent-part

Is there any command that allows us to extract the mantissa of a number like 2.36e6 so we can get 2.36? 
Something like this: 
\mantissa{2.36e6}
 

- asked by Hafid Boukhoulda (9 votes), answered by egreg (6 votes)

2.8.1.4 How does \delimiter work? How does it convert its argument into character(s?) and why?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/296647/how-does-delimiter-work-how-does-it-convert-its-argument-into-characters-an

studying the definition of \lvert (which just made me finally understand what does mean \@xp\@gobble and how it works \o/), I found the \delimiter command, with a numeric argument advanced by  ...
 

- asked by galex-713 (9 votes), answered by David Carlisle (9 votes)

2.8.1.5 How to change from "CHAPITRE" to "CHAPTER"

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/296314/how-to-change-from-chapitre-to-chapter

I am writing a PhD thesis. Some parts of my thesis need to be in French, but the main language is English. I am using 
\documentclass[english,letterpaper,12pt,oneside,final]{book} 
...
 

- asked by Hasan (9 votes), answered by egreg (22 votes)

2.8.1.6 How to get a very compact TOC

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/296056/how-to-get-a-very-compact-toc

This is how the original TOC looks. 
This original format of the table of contents takes too much space. I wanted some format that is compact and found this sample. 
I am also searching for other  ...
 

- asked by user44342 (9 votes), answered by JP-Ellis (18 votes)

2.8.1.7 How to typeset in initex?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/296880/how-to-typeset-in-initex

Just curious how to typeset letter 'a' in initex without 'overfull' warnings. 
$ tex -ini '\font\f=cmr10\f a\end' 
This is TeX, Version 3.14159265 (TeX Live 2015/Debian) (INITEX) 
Overfull \hbox  ...
 

- asked by Igor Liferenko (8 votes), answered by David Carlisle (6 votes)