## Top new questions this week:

### LaTeX vs Word; improvements of LaTeX over the years

When comparing MS Word vs LaTeX the proponents of Word often say that many advantages of LaTeX over Word from say 1997 disappeared over the years as Word evolved to the current 2013 version. For ...

{latex-project} {msword} {tex-history}

I read this question, not what I want, I don't want lorem ipsum either see this picture A classic movie scene in cartoons and real movies, a letter appears to be written in a smooth elegant ...

{fonts}

### Define decoration with cloud shapes to resemble smoke

I want to create a decoration that would decorate a path with gray transparent clouds with random shifts, random number of puffs and scaling size. The idea is that it should look like smoke coming up. ...

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### Count number of entries with specific value

Assume I have a list with quite a few entries (all integer values, in case it's relevant), e.g., 1 2 4 0 3 1 0 0 2 1 7 1 4 2 3 0 0 6 5 2 1 2 3 0 Can LaTeX somehow count the number of 0's, 1's, ..., ...

{token-lists}

### Rotating tikzpicture messes up intersections

I'm working on a picture using TikZ and I'm using intersections to draw some points (the $α(t_{j+i}$). I saw that the picture would fit better into the page if I rescaled it and rotated 90 degrees, ...

{tikz-pgf} {rotating} {intersections}

### Adjust the height of the "|" in a mathematical term

I have a mathematical term produced by two different pieces of code: \displaystyle H\left(\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{2}\left|_{C_{k}=1}\right.\right) \displaystyle ...

{math-mode} {delimiters}

### Forcing subfigures to have same height and take overall X% of linewidth in LaTeX

I want to make a figure composed of two images that have different sizes. I want to put them side by side so that they have the same height and that they overall take, say, 90% of the line width. It ...

{floats}

## Greatest hits from previous weeks:

### Column and row padding in tables

How do you guys go about controlling column padding in tables? Update To clarify, I'm looking for a way to control both vertical and horizontal padding. So, if I had a simple table like in the ...

{tables} {spacing} {columns}

### Changing the font size in a table

What's the recommend way of changing the font size in a particular table? Is there a better way than enclosing all values with, for example, the \tiny function.

{tables} {floats} {fontsize}

### KOMA + bigfoot + lineno seem to produce vertical gaps in some cases

in a lengthy critical edition, I am using KOMA-Script, bigfoot and lineno. In certain cases, all involving footnotes, there are vertical gaps on the page containing the footnotes. This affects roughly ...

{koma-script} {line-numbering} {bigfoot}

### post-process cell content in one column based on another column

I am trying to do something quite similar to this post: pgfplotstable: Conditional post-processing of cell content on a per-column basis However, I'd like to post-process the column based on the ...

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