11.74.1 Top new questions this week

11.74.1.1 Iterated plot with TikZ, PGFPlots and foreach loop

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I'm trying to plot an illustration of the fixed point method in which a function is evaluated repeatedly in a loop. The result should be a staircase or spiral plot on top of the plot of the function ... 
[tikz-pgf] [pgfplots] [foreach] [pgfmath]
 

asked by Dominique https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2701 Score of 7

answered by kabenyuk https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=204924 Score of 8

11.74.1.2 With the Roboto Flex font, siunitx \micro not displayed with an upright mu

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The following MCE displays \unit{\micro\gram} as expected, that is with the (upright mu) Micro Sign character: 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{fontspec} 
\usepackage{siunitx} 
\setmainfont{TeX Gyre ... 
[fonts] [fontspec] [siunitx] [unicode]
 

asked by Denis BitouzA~(c) https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=18401 Score of 7

answered by Marijn https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=89417 Score of 3

11.74.1.3 I want a command which can take two arbitrary ellipses, and shade the region between them, bounded by their mutual tangents

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I want a command which can take two arbitrary ellipses, and shade the region between them, bounded by their mutual tangents. 
\documentclass[tikz,border=1cm]{standalone} 
\begin{document} 
\begin{... 
[tikz-pgf]
 

asked by Jasper https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=319072 Score of 6

answered by nidarfp https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=406312 Score of 8

11.74.1.4 Number sign/hash (#) not allowed in environment defined with listings

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The number sign ("#") raises an error in an environment defined with \lstnewenvironment of listings package. This is possibly related to the recent changes in LaTeX2e kernel ( 2025-11-01) ... 
[listings]
 

asked by Zeping Lee https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=82731 Score of 6

answered by Frank Mittelbach https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=10109 Score of 7

11.74.1.5 Possible bug in TeX?

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If paragraph is started implicitly and begins with a group, \everypar is executed inside group. Is it a feature? 
\hsize=12em 
\parindent=0pt 
\everypar={\hangindent=20pt } 
\indent{T}he quick brown fox ... 
[tex-core] [plain-tex]
 

asked by Igor Liferenko https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=70900 Score of 5

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4427 Score of 6

11.74.1.6 Insteresting case that $...$ inside `cases` environment would exit the math-mode?

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I have the following code: 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{amsmath} 
\begin{document} 
$ 
\begin{cases} 
a & b \\ 
c & $$math$text$math$$ 
\end{cases} 
$ 
\end{document} 
It gives: 
The ... 
[amsmath] [cases]
 

asked by Explorer https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=322482 Score of 5

answered by David Carlisle https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1090 Score of 10

11.74.1.7 How can I detect when an \item in an itemize environment breaks into multiple lines in LaTeX?

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I'm experimenting with LaTeX internals to detect when a list item in an itemize environment wraps onto more than one line. 
My goal is to eventually adjust the layout (for example, switch to a ... 
[enumerate] [itemize]
 

asked by nowox https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=85416 Score of 5

answered by Skillmon https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=117050 Score of 7