TeX - LaTeX Weekly Newsletter - Thursday, August 27, 2015

Top new questions this week: Document Layout Styles I am inviting partial solutions for defining styles for document layouts. The solutions should be capable of defining the font size, leading (interline distance), and type for the running text as well ... {sectioning} {packages} {typography} {grid-typesetting}   asked by Marc van Dongen 12 votes Why are objects not horizontally aligned when using rotation? This is my code. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document} \def\magnet at (#1,#2,#3){\draw [rotate=#3] (#1,#2) ellipse (0.8 and 0.4) node at (#1-0.4,#2) {N} ... {tikz-pgf} {rotating}   asked by Yogesh Yadav 11 votes answered by Heiko Oberdiek 12 votes How are hyphenation patterns written? In my miktex folder I checked the hyph-en-us.tex file and found letter patterns written like this: \patterns{ .ach4 .ad4der .af1t ... } What do these dots and numbers mean? {hyphenation}   asked by Giorgi 11 votes answered by egreg 15 votes Understanding expansion of \mathpalette I'm trying to make sense of the \mathpalette code used in this answer. To repeat it below: \makeatletter \newcommand{\raisemath}[1]{\mathpalette{\raisem@th{#1}}} ... {math-mode} {macros}   asked by justin 9 votes answered by Werner 8 votes What is the equivalent of \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} in TeX? I have inherited a semi-small TeX project in which I, after syncing across various computers and OS'es, had some problems with encodings of special characters like åäö. My initial approach for fixing ... {pdftex} {font-encodings}   asked by Tomas Lycken 9 votes answered by Ulrike Fischer 9 votes microtype: Protrusion not affecting unnumbered section titles The microtype protrusion won't work in my starred (unnumbered) section titles. I have a feeling that this might be part of a general bug of microtype when dealing with starting lines of environments ... {sectioning} {microtype} {protrusion}   asked by lblb 8 votes answered by cfr 5 votes Context sensitive glyph appears even when hyphenation removes the context The Alegreya font has a pretty clever feature by which it substitutes the regular f glyph with a variant that has a longer cross stroke when the f is followed by t. The result is that the two cross ... {luatex} {hyphenation} {ligatures} {substitution}   asked by Sverre 8 votes answered by michal.h21 7 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: How to include SVG diagrams in LaTeX? I'm making all my diagrams in SVG format using Inkscape and then I export them to some other format (e.g. PDF, EPS or PNG). I wrote a short script that does this for me automatically, but I'd like to ... {graphics} {svg}   asked by Martin Tapankov 250 votes answered by Martin H 124 votes Superscript outside math mode What is the easiest way to superscript text outside of math mode? For example, let's say I want to write the $n^{th}$ element, but without the math mode's automatic italicization of the th. And what ... {superscripts}   asked by jamaicanworm 135 votes answered by Werner 183 votes Can you answer these? Undefined control sequence. Unmatched brace? Here's a minimal viable example of my error. *.tex file first: \documentclass[letterpaper,man,apacite]{apa6} \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} \usepackage[hyphens]{url} ... {bibtex}   asked by Rick Gilmore 2 votes Alignment of TikZ Pics in TabularX What is the easiest way to get that last square aligned the same was as the first two? Do I need to create a \newcolumntype that somehow centers the content both vertically and horizontally? If so, ... {tikz-pgf} {vertical-alignment} {tabularx}   asked by WeCanLearnAnything 2 votes Editing ligature table It is suggested in TeXbook (p. 46) that in adapting TeX to type Norwegian, You can arrange the font metric file so that TeX will interpret ae, o/, aa, AE, O/, and AA as ligatures that produce ... {fonts} {plain-tex}   asked by jlovegren 3 votes

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