7.47.1 Top new questions this week

7.47.1.1 TikZ nodes: how to pretend that all characters have ascenders and descenders?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=609202

I would like to draw a few boxes with TikZ, each of them containing one or more words, sometimes with multiple lines. Something like this: 
\documentclass{standalone} 
\usepackage{tikz} 
\usetikzlibrary{... 
[tikz-pgf]
 

asked by Matthias https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=13684 9 votes

answered by Symbol 1 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=51022 6 votes

7.47.1.2 TikZ, transparency and PDF/A

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=609116

So I am trying to validate my document as PDF/A, and I'm almost there. The last remaining problem concerns graphics generated by TikZ. Consider this MWE: 
% !TeX program  = lualatex 
\documentclass{... 
[tikz-pgf] [transparency] [pdf-a]
 

asked by Ingmar https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=26614 9 votes

answered by Ulrike Fischer https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2388 12 votes

7.47.1.3 Reproducing a figure from Wikipedia's entry on Pythagorean theorem

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=609363

I am a novice TeX user, so please forgive any ignorance shown here. I am drafting a document for my students to explain the basic proofs of the Pythagorean theorem. I understand it is possible to ... 
[tikz-pgf] [draw]
                                                                                  

                                                                                  
 

asked by kroner https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=209867 6 votes

answered by Black Mild https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=140722 13 votes

7.47.1.4 How to make a very large forward slash in math mode?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=609080

this is the result I'd like to achieve: 
I tried various commands to make the forward slash larger, for instance I tried the \left. (...) \right / or composing multiple \mathlarger commands but I ... 
[math-mode] [symbols]
 

asked by Baffo rasta https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=201069 6 votes

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4427 7 votes

7.47.1.5 Keep the title in the first column instead of above both

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=608946

I'm using the following code: 
\documentclass[twocolumn]{article} 
\usepackage[landscape]{geometry} 
\usepackage{lipsum, parskip} 
\geometry{a4paper, twoside, left=1.5cm, right=1.5cm, marginparwidth=1.2cm,... 
[titles] [two-column]
 

asked by Algorythmis https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=225043 6 votes

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4427 5 votes

7.47.1.6 How can I draw a mini wave?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=609481

I'm trying to draw the following figure using TikZ, but I'm stuck on how can I produce that red wave representing a photon : 
Here's my code and what it produces : 
\begin{tikzpicture}[>=stealth] 
\... 
[tikz-pgf] [physics]
 

asked by Med-Elf https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=209604 5 votes

answered by Roland https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=224762 10 votes

7.47.1.7 size and alignment of quotation mark with lettrine

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=609544

The documentation of lettrine describes using \ante= for quotation marks before dropped capitals. This produces a quotation mark of the same size as in normal text: 
\documentclass[12pt]{article} 
\... 
[lettrine]
 

asked by ThA~(c)rA~..se https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=7883 5 votes

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