5.5.1 Top new questions this week

5.5.1.1 Welcoming 2019 Lunar New Year: How to draw a (lovely) pig?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=473287

Off-topic part 
In 2019, the first day of the Chinese New Year will be on  tomorrow (Tuesday, 5 February), initiating the Year of the pig. Happy Lunar New Year to all of you, especially if you are  ... 
[tikz-pgf] [pstricks] [asymptote] [fun] [tikzlings]
 

asked by JouleV https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=156344 33 votes

answered by samcarter https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=36296 56 votes

5.5.1.2 How to draw Micrometer scale using TikZ

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=472876

How to draw these two figures in TikZ? 
I have gone as far as 
\documentclass[margin=3mm,tikz]{standalone} 
\begin{document} 
\begin{tikzpicture} 
\draw (0,0)--(-2,0); 
\draw (0,-2)--(-2,-2); 
... 
[tikz-pgf]
 

asked by Someone https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=180693 25 votes

answered by marmot https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=121799 27 votes

5.5.1.3 Why is pgf 3.1 not compatible with tex?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=473365

The release of pgf 3.1 on Jan the 6th broke a nightly build I'm running. Updating the package locally allowed me to reproduce the error, so I'm certain that's what caused it. 
Here is a broken MWE: 
... 
[tikz-pgf] [plain-tex] [pgfkeys]
 

asked by Paolo Brasolin https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=82186 13 votes

answered by Henri Menke https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=10995 17 votes

5.5.1.4 Vertical sliced cylinder

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=473151

I want to explain how the shape of a cylinder is made. Therefore I want te make this picture. 
My code is this: 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{siunitx} 
\usepackage{tkz-euclide} 
... 
[tikz-pgf] [tikz-3dplot] [tkz-euclide]
 

asked by Arne Timperman https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=18866 10 votes

answered by Milo https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=128068 13 votes

5.5.1.5 7.0pt a^\211  x*10.0pt for all x

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=473706

Consider the following input: 
\documentclass{article} 
\begin{document} 
\newlength{\smallertopskip} 
\setlength{\smallertopskip}{.700004577636718749999999999999999999999999999999\topskip} 
... 
[lengths] [floating-point]
 

asked by user0 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=165772 9 votes

answered by Werner https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=5764 14 votes

5.5.1.6 Draw a truncated pyramid with a square base

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=473280

I want to draw a truncated pyramid that is suspended on a rope, and submersed inside water in a cylinder. 
\documentclass{standalone} 
\usepackage{tikz} 
\usetikzlibrary{patterns} 
... 
[tikz-pgf]
                                                                                  

                                                                                  
 

asked by Thumbolt https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=69901 9 votes

answered by marmot https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=121799 15 votes

5.5.1.7 How to give a line more vertical space / height

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=472826

How can I give one line in LaTeX more vertical height so that something like 
\frac{n^n}{{2}^{2n} * {n^n}^{2}} 
displays correctly with the {2} getting enough space to look like it's above the top n  ... 
[line-spacing]
 

asked by Pro Q https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=126395 8 votes

answered by Mico https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=5001 7 votes