5.19.1 Top new questions this week

5.19.1.1 What ways have you found to get edits from non-LaTeX users?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=494059

I sometimes need to get edits to my papers from non-LaTeX users. Do you have any clever methods of collaborating with them (or even other LaTeX users) in a productive way? 
By this I mean sharing  ... 
[big-list]
 

asked by Canageek https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=7880 55 votes

answered by barbara beeton https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=579 41 votes

5.19.1.2 How to construct an hbox with negative height?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=494081

According to answer on exercise 12.10 in TeXbook, a box's height may be negative: 
Yes it did, but only because none of his boxes had a negative height or depth. 
But on p.77 it is said: 
The  ... 
[boxes] [box]
 

asked by Igor Liferenko https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=70900 13 votes

answered by frougon https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=73317 14 votes

5.19.1.3 f-type expansion

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=494280

I am still struggling with understanding the f-type expansion. What is it all about? The explanation on page 2 in interface3.pdf is not really satisfying. 
In the given example 
\tl_set:Nn \l_mya_tl {  ... 
[expl3]
 

asked by AlexG https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=1053 8 votes

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=4427 9 votes

5.19.1.4 Understanding the TeXlive release cycle: What is the meaning of a TeXlive release and is it ever 'finished'?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=493966

I'm trying to understand how the TeXLive release cycle works, but I'm unable to find exact information during my research. I hope someone here can point me in the right direction. Here's what I  ... 
[texlive]
 

asked by Fritz https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=12440 8 votes

answered by Joseph Wright https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=73 11 votes

5.19.1.5 '\v C ' character not rendered in fonts which don't have 'A"\214' with T1 encoding

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=493741

I'm trying to typeset a word that contains a 'A"\214', and due to context, it has to appear in a sans, bold, quattrocento font. 
However, whenever I have the fontencoding set to T1, then the character  ... 
[font-encodings]
 

asked by PTNobel https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=81508 8 votes

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=4427 9 votes

5.19.1.6 The colon does not align with the \vdots

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I have the following code to align several equations: 
\begin{aligned} 
s_{1} & :=\sum_{1 \leq j \leq m} X_{j} \\ 
s_{2} & :=\sum_{1 \leq j<k \leq m} X_{j} \cdot X_{k} \\ 
& \vdots  ... 
[horizontal-alignment] [equations] [align]
 

asked by Le Anh Dung https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=161639 7 votes

answered by marmot https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=121799 8 votes

5.19.1.7 Commas in \clist_map_inline:nn split values in undesired places

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=494312

I am curious about the workings of \clist_map_inline:nn. I have a list of sentences. This list is has no fixed length. Sometimes, the list may contain 2 sentences, or 10 sentences etc. So, I came  ... 
[syntax] [comma-separated-list]
 

asked by s326280 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=186188 7 votes

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=4427 7 votes