4.12.1 Top new questions this week

4.12.1.1 How to properly typeset a rolling r

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=424263

To my greatest surprise, LaTeX does not provide any means to properly typeset rolling r's. (OK, neither Word nor pages do any better, but this is hardly a valid criterion.) I am talking here about the  ... 
[typography] [fun]
 

asked by marmot https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=121799 38 votes

answered by Henri Menke https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=10995 50 votes

4.12.1.2 Can LaTeX remember from which page the user jumped when clicking on a reference

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=424779

The answer to this is most likely no. But if someone with deep LaTeX or pdf-viewer knowledge know the answer to be a yes, then please do tell! 
Imagine the following situation: a person is reading a  ... 
[viewers] [navigation]
 

asked by Melvin Roest https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=49254 20 votes

answered by Heiko Oberdiek https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=16967 27 votes

4.12.1.3 What does \smash do, and where is it documented?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=424200

I see several users in this forum talk about \smash. It is apparently defined in base TeX. 
What does \smash do? 
For future reference, is there online documentation where I could find this? 
[math-mode] [vertical-alignment] [smash]
                                                                                  

                                                                                  
 

asked by vy32 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=2562 13 votes

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=4427 12 votes

4.12.1.4 Why the name TikZ?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=424706

Presumably the "Ti" in TikZ comes from Till Tantau. If so, what does the rest of the name stand for? If not, why is the package named that way? 
[tikz-pgf]
 

asked by murray https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=13492 11 votes

answered by Henri Menke https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=10995 19 votes

4.12.1.5 Is \string expandable?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=424274

I read the following sentence in TeX by Topic by Victor Eijkhout, in page 50: 
The \string command is executed by the expansion processor, thus it is expanded unless explicitly inhibited. 
Does it  ... 
[tex-core]
 

asked by Evian https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=152017 8 votes

answered by Henri Menke https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=10995 13 votes

4.12.1.6 Superimpose LaTeX / TeX output over a large PDF file

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=424684

I need to add annotations to large PDF file. The method suggested in this answer does not scale well: 
\documentclass[12pt]{article} 
\usepackage{pdfpages} 
\usepackage{tikz} 
\begin{document} 
... 
[tikz-pgf] [pdf] [pdfpages]
 

asked by Primo Petri https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=37321 7 votes

answered by David Purton https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=87678 3 votes

4.12.1.7 Choice of consistent unicode open-type fonts for Phd Thesis in Engineering

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=424474

Having written about 60% of my Phd thesis, I gave it to my advisor for review. I used Pdflatex and Latin Modern fonts for text and math. For source code listings, I did not change anything in  ... 
[fonts] [unicode-math] [thesis] [opentype] [math-fonts]
 

asked by Krishna https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=93525 7 votes

answered by Davislor https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=61644 8 votes