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Top new questions this week: Practical use of lua Although I always use Lualatex to compile my documents, I don't really use lua that often. Sometimes I even forget about it. In my last document I used it to write a random word generator, which … {lua}   asked by Benutzer193 33 votes answered by Josef 29 votes Rounding a number to its hundred Does anybody know how I could have LaTeX round a number like 2,386 so that I finally get only written 2,300? I tried with siunitx and its option [round-mode=places,round-precision=-2] but it didn't … {math-mode} {siunitx} {calculations}   asked by Frednight 18 votes answered by egreg 13 votes What is the difference between LyX and LaTeX? Currently I am using LaTeX to typeset all my math reports. Recently I found out that LyX also uses LaTeX, which can also generate PDF, accept commands from LaTeX, but is easier to use as it does not … {lyx} {editors}   asked by Idonknow 18 votes answered by scottkosty 26 votes Why do we use the Latex logo when referring to Latex in text? It seems standard practice, when typesetting with Latex, to put the Latex logo in the text whenever we are referring to Latex itself (usually through the \LaTeX command). Why do we do this? It's … {typography} {latex-project} {logos}   asked by James Fennell 16 votes answered by Paulo Cereda 6 votes Tikz: Drawing railway tracks I like to draw a double line such that the gap between the two lines is transparent. My purpose is to draw railway tracks: \documentclass[tikz]{standalone} \tikzstyle{track}=[ … {tikz-pgf}   asked by user61383 14 votes answered by Mark Wibrow 12 votes Differences regarding kerning and ligaturing between MacTex2013 and MacTeX2014 with .ttc fonts This posting is a follow-up to the postings Can't generate ligatures with LuaLaTeX under TeXLive 2014 when using certain fonts and LuaLaTeX, fontspec, .ttc fonts and kerning (Optima on Mac OS). I have … {fonts} {luatex} {mactex} {ligatures} {kerning}   asked by Mico 12 votes Move Moon on its orbit around the Earth I want to draw my Moon on its orbit around the Earth. I can easily draw the moon on the perpendicular axes centring on the Earth but to move it around would probably require some trigonometry... Is … {tikz-pgf}   asked by Francesco 12 votes answered by Harish Kumar 19 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: What is the most bizarre thing you have seen done with TeX I think the questions says it all! :) By TeX, I mean any derivative of TeX as long as the code is clearly a derivative of TeX, i.e. that it could belong on TeX.SX (and not pure Lua for example). … {fun} {big-list}   asked by Xavier 102 votes answered by Martin Heller 79 votes What commands are there for horizontal spacing? I know that \: in LaTeX produces a space when rendered. Are there any alternatives, because my LaTeX renderer doesn't support \: (it renders it as text), and there is no help / FAQ that I can find. {spacing}   asked by think123 92 votes answered by Werner 141 votes Can you answer these? bclogo page breaks I am using the Bclogo package http://www.ctan.org/pkg/bclogo. I have created environments for lemmas and proofs with it. The proof was too big to fit on the bottom of the page, so it just inserted a … {formatting} {page-breaking}   asked by Tyler Clark 2 votes ConTeXt: hyperlinks with special characters I need to link to some online resources in my PDF file. Based on the official documentation, I have written: \useURL[dbdk] [http://dbpedia.org/page/The_Dark_Knight_(film)] [] [it's link to DBPedia] … {context}   asked by prash 2 votes separation of reference and footnote numbers by a comma I'm using revtex4-1 as documentclass and would like to place a footnote after a citation, \cite{...}\footnote{} However, the consecutive superscript numbers in the resulting pdf are not separated … {footnotes} {citing} {revtex}   asked by pawel_winzig 2 votes

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