TeX - LaTeX Weekly Newsletter - Thursday, October 29, 2015

Top new questions this week: TikZ — involute of a circle I need to combine an involute (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Involute) of a circle and an archimedean spiral in one TikZ drawing, but have a problem drawing the involute. I need something like this: ... {tikz-pgf}   asked by GeMir 19 votes answered by Jake 16 votes etex package still seems to be necessary in LaTeX2e 2015/10/01? I've experienced this problem after upgrading to TeX Live 2015 and getting newer versions of all my packages. (Presumably some of those package updates are to blame.) MVE: \documentclass{scrartcl} ... {pdftex} {texlive} {e-tex} {bytefield}   asked by Lightness Races in Orbit 14 votes answered by Joseph Wright 13 votes What is the local height of a capital letter? How can I get a length, which reflects the hight of a (flat) capital letter? While \em gives me a width, \ex refers to a lowercase letter and \f@size refers to the overall fontsize including the ... {fontsize}   asked by ManuelAtWork 12 votes answered by egreg 12 votes Using crop package with XeLaTeX When using the crop package with XeLaTeX the cropping of the first page doesn't work. While the following document compiles fine with PDFLaTeX the result with XeLaTeX is this: As you can see the ... {xetex} {paper-size}   asked by Tobi 12 votes answered by Akira Kakuto 8 votes "Incompatible list can't be unboxed" with memoir class and many box registers Consider the following MWE: \documentclass{memoir} %% Create 123 box registers \newcount\X \X=1 \loop \expandafter\newbox\csname mybox\the\X\endcsname \advance \X by 1 \ifnum \X<124 \repeat %% ... {memoir} {boxes}   asked by grizzilus 10 votes answered by David Carlisle 8 votes Problem using calligra font with lettrine I'd like to use the calligra font with lettrine, but lettrine seems to cut off a part of the letter W. \documentclass[11pt]{book} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{lettrine} ... {lettrine} {calligraphy}   asked by L.A. Rabida 10 votes Tightly fit a circle around points When using \node[circle, fit=(A) (B) (C)], the resulting circle is too big and doesn't touch the corners of the C node: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{fit} \begin{document} ... {tikz-pgf} {nodes} {fit} {tikz-shape}   asked by Georges Dupéron 9 votes answered by Gonzalo Medina 6 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: How can I manually install a package on MiKTeX (Windows) I'm new to LaTeX, investigating using it for some work projects. I'm using MiKTeX on Windows. My employer's locked-down network blocks the application's automatic installation function. I can take ... {packages} {installing} {miktex} {windows}   asked by mbmcavoy 116 votes answered by Stefan Kottwitz 94 votes Using \footnote in a figure's \caption Maybe this is an easy one, but I struggled with this now too long :) I want to have a footnote in a caption of a figure, see the example. \begin{figure}[!ht] \caption{a figure ... {floats} {footnotes} {captions}   asked by Matten 95 votes answered by Herbert 57 votes Can you answer these? Problems with epstopdf: using .tif files in Latex does not work I am writing my thesis in Latex and have multiple .tif pictures to include. Of course, I can convert them manually, but I would prefer to let Latex do this job to save time. I am trying to use the ... {graphics} {epstopdf}   asked by Max 3 votes LaTeX foreach with non-numerical indices I'm writing a simple script to produce randomized cards that I use to teach statistical ideas in my class. I've used Tikz to produce randomized cards that all follow the layout that I want using ... {foreach} {tikz-pgf}   asked by EvRoHa 3 votes Can someone explain what TikZ Calendar code is doing step by step? I am baffled by some Jedi Master code. This impressive calendar code would be nice to grasp. I can manipulate it by trial and error, but I would like to move to the next level and understand it. ... {tikz-pgf} {calendar}   asked by macmadness86 5 votes

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