9.35.1 Top new questions this week

9.35.1.1 Height of \sin versus \tan in amsmath

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=686824

I'm aware of this question that explains the difference between \sin and \cos because of the letter 'i' in \sin.  However, just out of curiosity, I don't understand why \tan isn't treated like \sin in ... 
[formatting] [amsmath]
 

asked by Frunobulax https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=52582 Score of 13

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4427 Score of 8

9.35.1.2 What is \DocumentMetadata? What key-value pairs does it take and when should I use it?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=686898

So, I stumbled across a document that began with, 
\DocumentMetadata{pdfversion=1.2} 
\nonstopmode\synctex=1 
\documentclass{article} 
I have seen line 2 and 3 in the wild but I have never seen line 1 ... 
[document-configuration]
 

asked by sigsegv https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=93994 Score of 8

answered by Ulrike Fischer https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2388 Score of 10

9.35.1.3 Vertical ellipsis in circuitikz

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=687017

I'm trying to create a summing amplifier circuit using circuitikz with ellipsis to show that it may have infinitely many branches. Unfortunately, unlike \cdots on a horizontal line, \vdots isn't ... 
[tikz-pgf] [circuitikz]
                                                                                  

                                                                                  
 

asked by glibg10b https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=297959 Score of 7

answered by Rmano https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=38080 Score of 9

9.35.1.4 Implementing a 3x4 subfigure

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=687027

I would like to implement the following figure in LaTeX, including the axis labels. 
(Assume that in this image matrix there are 12 individual square pictures ... can I fix the size of the individual ... 
[subfloats]
 

asked by Philippe Knecht https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=229360 Score of 5

answered by Zarko https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=18189 Score of 8

9.35.1.5 Generate the hyphenation of a given list of words

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=686991

I'm new to LaTeX; is there a way to tell the TeX engine to generate the hyphenation of a given list of words as a text output file? For example: 
abdomen 
abduction 
aberrance 
... 
What I want is ... 
[hyphenation] [automation]
 

asked by giofrida https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=297947 Score of 5

answered by David Carlisle https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1090 Score of 8

9.35.1.6 Why would I use \dimexpr .. \relax in \setlength?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=686796

I read somewhere that you should use \dimexpr ... \relax when defining lengths. 
Is that really the case? There seems to be no difference between using it or not: 
\documentclass{article} 
\newlength{\... 
[lengths] [setlength]
 

asked by mrCarnivore https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=281557 Score of 5

answered by wipet https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=51799 Score of 4

9.35.1.7 \NewDocumentCommand: Mandatory types r / R and their 'default values'

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=686792

The documentation of xparse states (emphasis mine): 
r Given as ra^\237..token1a^\237(c)a^\237..token2a^\237(c), this denotes a 'required' delimited argument, where the delimiters are a^\237..token1a^\237(c) and a^\237..token2a^\237(c). If the opening ... 
[xparse] [arguments]
 

asked by O'Neil https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=132778 Score of 5

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4427 Score of 4