5.6.1 Top new questions this week

5.6.1.1 Drawing a constant randomly distorted circle

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=474483

I am trying to draw a special and contradictive plot : A circle with random distortions which have to remain constant regardless of how many times I build the document. 
An example of what I am trying  ... 
[tikz-pgf] [random-numbers] [random]
 

asked by Thanos https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=12795 16 votes

answered by ferahfeza https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=31034 11 votes

5.6.1.2 Why do people specify date as an option for \usepackage?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=474752

In LaTeX code written by other people, I sometimes see a date specified as an optional argument for \usepackage: 
\usepackage{iftex}[2013/04/04] 
Intuition tells me that this is some way to ensure  ... 
[packages] [optional-arguments] [package-options] [latex-base]
 

asked by ScumCoder https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=106612 15 votes

answered by Phelype Oleinik https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=134574 18 votes

5.6.1.3 A Question About \futurelet

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=474451

Here is something I don't understand about \futurelet, in this case, into macro \xfl.  I can successfully do the archetypal test of 
\ifx\xfl x... 
to test whether the next token is an x.  When true,  ... 
[tex-core]
 

asked by Steven B. Segletes https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=25858 14 votes

answered by Joseph Wright https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=73 10 votes

5.6.1.4 Populate information from a csv file into a LaTeX document (specifically into the fields/arguments of commands therein)

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=474397

I have some personal information stored in a plain CSV file personal_info.csv in the following format: 
personal_info.csv 
83 Fancy Avenue,Nowheresville,Gotham City 24061 
123 456 7890 
[e-mail] 
... 
[moderncv] [external-files] [datatool] [csvsimple] [metadata]
 

asked by Krishna https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=93525 12 votes

answered by Steven B. Segletes https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=25858 8 votes

5.6.1.5 How to draw a diver in TikZ?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=474285

How to draw a diver being trained in a tall water tower in TikZ? 
All what I have (been able to) do(ne): 
\documentclass[tikz,margin=3mm]{standalone} 
\usepackage{siunitx} 
\usetikzlibrary{patterns} 
... 
[tikz-pgf]
 

asked by Someone https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=181261 12 votes

answered by marmot https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=121799 29 votes

5.6.1.6 How to cut off part of a letter

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=474620

I want to cut off the very top left part of an uppercase R. I tried using \adjustbox, but it cuts off the whole top part, which is not what I want. Here's the MWE, the corresponding output and the  ... 
[adjustbox]
 

asked by noibe https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=172923 11 votes

answered by Circumscribe https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=156366 9 votes

5.6.1.7 An optimized set of tikz code?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=473926

I have a question, how can have the shortest set of tikz code for this pecture 
i am tring to optimize this code: 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{amsmath} 
\usepackage{tikz} 
\begin{document} 
La  ... 
[tikz-pgf]
 

asked by mou-nadal https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=180898 10 votes