1.11.1 Top new questions this week

1.11.1.1 How to make these boxes?
1.11.1.2 Place a $\star$ over a letter as an accent
1.11.1.3 How do I rotate the page and have two figures side-by-side?
1.11.1.4 unicode-math broken
1.11.1.5 Boxes for SMS Conversation
1.11.1.6 Automatically replace environment align by equation+aligned combination
1.11.1.7 Enforcing or encouraging use of the most up-to-date version of a class
1.11.1.1 How to make these boxes?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/269851/how-to-make-these-boxes

I don't know how exactly to call what I want to implement. It's like a box surrounded with a line and, depending on the context, I want to place a graphic on the right corner e.g. a light bulb or a  ...
 

- asked by user2692669 (18 votes), answered by Gonzalo Medina (19 votes)

1.11.1.2 Place a $\star$ over a letter as an accent

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/270100/place-a-star-over-a-letter-as-an-accent

I want to create a stylized version of the i where the dot has been replaced by a $\star$. 
I know how to stackrel, but that's about the only thing I know about stacking things on top of eachother.
 

- asked by PA~\[Yen]l GD (14 votes), answered by egreg (14 votes)

1.11.1.3 How do I rotate the page and have two figures side-by-side?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/269377/how-do-i-rotate-the-page-and-have-two-figures-side-by-side

I would like to dedicate a whole page to two figures, which I wish to place side by side in the horizontal layout. 
What is the best way to achieve this? Thanks in advance! 
This is what I have  ...
 

- asked by user88473 (10 votes), answered by Zarko (7 votes)

1.11.1.4 unicode-math broken

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/269786/unicode-math-broken

I updated texlive this morning and discovered that unicode-math is broken: 
<argument> \xetex_suppressfontnotfounderror:D 
Here is a MWE: 
\documentclass[12pt]{article} 
...
 

- asked by George Pigman (9 votes), answered by David Carlisle (11 votes)

1.11.1.5 Boxes for SMS Conversation

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/270252/boxes-for-sms-conversation

How can I render a box to emulate an SMS conversation on a mobile device? 
Something looking like this (only the inner boxes containing the actual conversation): 
Note that I would like this to be  ...
 

- asked by Nicholas Hamilton (8 votes), answered by Gonzalo Medina (14 votes)

1.11.1.6 Automatically replace environment align by equation+aligned combination

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/270337/automatically-replace-environment-align-by-equationaligned-combination

I would like to automatically replace the align environment by an equation + aligned combination. Specifically, whenever \begin{align} occurs, it should automatically read it as  ...
 

- asked by Stemic (8 votes), answered by egreg (8 votes)

1.11.1.7 Enforcing or encouraging use of the most up-to-date version of a class

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/270213/enforcing-or-encouraging-use-of-the-most-up-to-date-version-of-a-class

Background 
I maintain a thesis class for my university. The class changes more frequently that I would like based on the whims of the university thesis office who clearly have little else to occupy  ...
 

- asked by Alan Munn (8 votes), answered by touhami (1 vote)