TeX - LaTeX Weekly Newsletter - Thursday, February 26, 2015

Top new questions this week: How do I get into XeTeX development? The support for OpenType fonts has been a great advancement in terms of usability. Unfortunately the microtype package does not offer font expansion for OpenType fonts in XeTeX. I dug a little ... {xetex} {tex-core}   asked by Henri Menke 18 votes answered by Martin Schröder 8 votes How can I make a perfect page grid that fits my page for measuring purposes in TikZ? Question How can I get my grid lines to line up perfectly such that they correspond to the physical millimeters on the page. Situation I have a sheet of A4 paper. I want to draw grid lines on it ... {tikz-pgf} {overlays}   asked by macmadness86 16 votes answered by cfr 7 votes Reproducible LaTeX builds - compile to a file which always hashes to the same value I am interested in using LaTeX in a way such that when I compile twice, I get the very same resulting file. My test.tex: \documentclass{article} \begin{document} Hello, World! \end{document} ... {pdf} {compiling} {security}   asked by Frederick Nord 13 votes answered by David Carlisle 17 votes Elegant hash areas for mathematical graphics... Sometimes on a graph you need to hash out areas in order to show vividly what the domains are. Is there an elegant way to create these hash areas using an instruction similar to the rectangle one? ... {tikz-pgf}   asked by Diegis 12 votes answered by Ignasi 7 votes Displaying rubber lengths in arbitrary units Based on this question, I know how to show regular lengths expressed in arbitrary units. However, I need to do the same for rubber lengths (showing the plus and minus) and the printlen package ... {lengths}   asked by rpspringuel 11 votes answered by David Carlisle 8 votes Upside down, paragraph style footnotes I am trying to figure out how to typeset solutions to in-text exercises as an upside down, paragraph style footnote, as in the following image: I can easily typeset the solutions in a rightside up ... {footnotes} {rotating}   asked by henry 11 votes answered by Steven B. Segletes 7 votes Inserting a orgin tangential to a sphere I am trying to draw a picture like the one attached. I have not used much of the tikz package. My code so far is a follows. I what to include a set of angles in the image. Any help would be great and ... {tikz-pgf} {tikz-3dplot} {learning}   asked by Cillian O'Brien 9 votes answered by Jesse 7 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: How to suppress page number? I've made myself custom title-page, put it in separate .tex file and when I input it, it is numbered with 1. The very next page is numbered with 1 also, and page-number increases on the following ... {page-numbering}   asked by user1996 51 votes answered by Stefan Kottwitz 68 votes How to write "ä" and other umlauts and accented letters in bibliography? How to write in bibliography (package natbib) letter "a" with two dots above? Specially, I mean the word Birkhäuser. Is there a general rule or way how to write such umlauts or other accented letters ... {bibtex} {accents} {characters}   asked by Laura 93 votes answered by Mico 127 votes Can you answer these? Parse numerical value from glossaries variable Can I parse the text returned from \gls*{...} and get latex to recognize it as a numerical variable so that I can use it in a calculation? This calculation could be done using calculator, fp, calc or ... {macros} {glossaries} {calculations} {pgfmath}   asked by EngBIRD 2 votes Color functional groups in chemfig syntax I want to color simple functional groups in organic molecules using the chemfig package. I've come up with a solution that achieves what I want (MWE), but I find it very cumbersome. I thought it could ... {color} {best-practices} {chemfig}   asked by Holene 3 votes Why XeLaTeX and PDFLaTeX give different outputs for Beamer presentation I have 3 questions: Why does the following code (see below) give different results in XeLaTeX than PDFLaTeX? Which one is incorrect? (My guess is that XeLaTeX's output is incorrect.) How do I ... {beamer} {xetex} {pdftex}   asked by Mehrdad 4 votes New blog post: LaTeX Beginner's Guide ebook for free by Stefan Kottwitz on Feb 21 In agreement with the publisher, the “LaTeX Beginner’s Guide” ebook will soon be officially available for free download. But this will be for a single day only, within the next two ...

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