12.8.1 Top new questions this week

12.8.1.1 How can I get the chamfer of the 3D font and make a BoundaryMeshRegion?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=318826

The desire font as in the document which could be found by FindShortestCurve -> Scope -> Mesh Region -> the last example 
https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FindShortestCurve.html#... 
[graphics3d] [regions] [mesh]
 

asked by herbertfederer https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=74235 Score of 5

answered by user21 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=18437 Score of 4

12.8.1.2 Partition a list into sublists of given length

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I'm struggling with  Partition ,  Subsets ,  Groupings , and I cannot achieve what I want. 
I want ... 
[combinatorics]
 

asked by coussin https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=11884 Score of 5

answered by azerbajdzan https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=53172 Score of 7

12.8.1.3 Replace parent or child of a symbol

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Is it possible to replace all  x -s that are a direct child of  e  which is a direct child of  c ? 
... 
[list-manipulation] [replacement] [pattern-matching] [syntax]
                                                                                  

                                                                                  
 

asked by azerbajdzan https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=53172 Score of 5

answered by lericr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=84894 Score of 4

12.8.1.4 Self-glowing Sphere[] with limb darkening

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Is there a way to create a self-glowing Sphere[] in a 3D plot which is brighter in the center than at the edge, regardless of the viewpoint, and not using external lighting? A long-ish search does not ... 
[plotting] [graphics3d] [rendering]
 

asked by Stefan Gillessen https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=62424 Score of 5

answered by azerbajdzan https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=53172 Score of 9

12.8.1.5 Why is PrimitivePolynomialQ[x + 1, 2] False?

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Why does  PrimitivePolynomialQ[x + 1, 2]  yield  False  ? 
Why does  PrimitivePolynomialQ[x, 2]  ... 
[bugs] [polynomials]
 

asked by fgrieu https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5289 Score of 5

12.8.1.6 Spellchecker suddenly malfunctioning or corrupted on 14.3

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[Updated with resolution] 
I run 14.3 personal edition on a MacBook Pro M2.  The spell checker is suddenly red-underlining hundreds of obviously OK words in text cells.  It seems not to be able to ... 
[front-end] [spellchecker]
 

asked by Tom Barson https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=84497 Score of 5

answered by Tom Barson https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=84497 Score of 1

12.8.1.7 Help with understanding how Blank, BlankSequence, and BlankNullSequence work as parts of string patterns

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=318812

I have a string  myStr  that contains a representation of today's date (Monday, February 23): 
 myStr = "M 2/23"; 
 
I'm ... 
[string-manipulation]
 

asked by Andrew https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1185 Score of 5

answered by WReach https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=142 Score of 10