5.33.1 Top new questions this week

5.33.1.1 Can I color text by using an image, so that the color isn't flat?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=510458

I'm using tikz to attempt to make a book cover, and I have a "wallpaper" image that looks like leather (not that I've handled that many leather-bound books). I'm using the node command to place text  ... 
[tikz-pgf] [color] [fill]
 

asked by John O https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=153275 23 votes

answered by SchrA~\[Paragraph]dinger's cat https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=194703 36 votes

5.33.1.2 How to temporarily replace Latin characters with Greek

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=510578

Often I am typing equations with many Greek characters in them, and it becomes cumbersome to type out the commands for them all. I would like to make a command or environment that replaces Latin  ... 
[macros] [greek]
 

asked by Carmeister https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=155862 15 votes

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4427 25 votes

5.33.1.3 Drawing Super Mario Bros.....in LaTeX

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=510748

There are several questions about TeX.SE. that concern designs for recurrences such as fireworks, lunar calendar, the pi-greek, and into my mind I'm remembering a protagonist of an old video game:  ... 
[tikz-pgf] [pstricks] [asymptote] [fun]
 

asked by Sebastiano https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=117876 13 votes

answered by Phelype Oleinik https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=134574 35 votes

5.33.1.4 Dotted footnote rule

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Here is my code to generate a text with a footnote: 
\documentclass[titlepage,paper=a4,11pt,onecolumn]{scrartcl} 
\usepackage[top=3cm, bottom=3.5cm, left=2.5cm, right=2.5cm]{geometry} 
... 
[footnotes] [rules]
 

asked by JosA~(c) https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=198309 11 votes

answered by Phelype Oleinik https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=134574 11 votes

5.33.1.5 What is the correspondence symbol with a hat or wedge over equals?

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I would like to produce a new equal symbol looking like this. 
. 
What is the best way to do that ? Pure TeX ? TiKz ? 
I'm looking for ways to do that rather than to a ready to use solution such as to  ... 
[symbols]
 

asked by projetmbc https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=6880 8 votes

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4427 17 votes

5.33.1.6 Having a \dsum like we can have a \dfrac

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=510049

I'm a lazzy man and I would like to have a \dsum operator to avoid the use of \displaystyle. I have made a macro but it would be nice to have the possibility to write \dsum_{k=1}^{n} instead of  ... 
[math-operators] [displaystyle]
 

asked by projetmbc https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=6880 8 votes

answered by David Carlisle https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1090 5 votes

5.33.1.7 Tikz diagonal filling pattern

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=510115

I would like diagonal line pattern and I also found it in the documentation, but something goes wrong: 
The two pattern should consist of solid lines in two directions. 
MEW: 
... 
[tikz-pgf]
 

asked by PeptideChain https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=126271 8 votes

answered by SchrA~\[Paragraph]dinger's cat https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=194703 8 votes