## Top new questions this week:

### Detect whether running on pdfTeX or Knuth's TeX for conditional include

Does anyone know a way to detect whether one is running in pdfTeX or Knuth's TeX? I want to be able to conditionally include extra features when a document is being built using pdfTex, but also ...

{macros} {pdftex} {plain-tex}

### Has anyone ever drawn a football field in latex?

Has anyone ever drawn a football field in latex? I know that could seem like a strange request. But I'm looking for a package that allows me to draw a football field.

{tikz-pgf}

### Summary of TeX Capacity Limits

I seem to often run into capacity issues and have been upping the limits each time. There are several question on this site pertaining to these. However, there seems to be some conflicting information ...

{tex-core} {memory} {capacity}

### Draw an animated gif of trigonometry function

How is an animated diagram like this drawn? Here is what I could get if I try my best for the code: \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{tikz,pgfplots} \begin{document} ...

{tikz-pgf} {animations}

### Creating a multi-line colored box in LaTeX

I am trying to create a colored box in LaTeX that has two lines. I would like the text to be centered. Ideally, I want to be able to change the text font and the size of the colored box. So, an ...

{line-breaking} {tcolorbox} {text}

### Help needed to create a relatively complex page for the cover of a textbook

I would like to be able to create a page like the following: I am using PDFLaTeX, by the way. I tried playing around with the minipage environments, but while I get somewhere, there are always ...

{graphics} {minipage}

### How to produce this table in latex with inconsistent lists/items?

I want to produce the first two rows of this 5-column table in LaTeX: As you can see it is a special type of tables where we see: itemized lists inside but inconsistently, ie. column 4 all rows ...

{tables} {macros} {itemize} {tabularx} {enumitem}

## Greatest hits from previous weeks:

### Embed LaTeX math equations into Microsoft Word

Let's say I have a (comparatively) lovely-looking document in LaTeX, full of lovingly typeset, (relatively) complex equations. Now, let's say some Philistines come along one day and decide that the ...

{conversion} {msword}

### How can I use BibTeX to cite a web page?

I'm looking to cite a number of web pages using bibtex and I was wondering if there was a specific template of the form @<template name here> for doing that. If you could use the following ...

{bibtex}

### Obtain a PDF animated from SVG animated

I have read Animations in LaTeX, but my question (I think) is different. I have an SVG animated file and I want to create the same animation in LaTeX, without rewriting the code. An example is this ...

{graphics} {pdf} {animations} {animate} {svg}

### Euler-Digits + siunitx hiding certain units (like Ohm)

It's been a couple of months since I last used my TeX, so I did some updates that became availabe (using MikTeX's software - Windows 7/64bit) and as of that moment, I noticed that my siunitx package ...

{xetex} {siunitx} {eulervm}