11.15.1 Top new questions this week

11.15.1.1 How to efficiently repeat defining similar commands?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=737917

I have a tex file where I manually repeat many commands of the same type 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{amssymb} 
\newcommand{\bR}{\mathbb{R}} 
\newcommand{\bT}{\mathbb{T}} 
\newcommand{\bN}{\... 
[macros]
 

asked by Akira https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=161639 Score of 13

answered by Skillmon https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=117050 Score of 14

11.15.1.2 How to use \IfBlankTF?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=737906

I am updating some LaTeX code, dragging it kicking and screaming to somewhere around LaTeX3.  Most of it is my code, I am unlearning various old bad habits so that I can learn new and improved bad ... 
[conditionals] [latex3]
 

asked by WaffleHouse2t2 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=285824 Score of 11

answered by cfr https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=39222 Score of 13

11.15.1.3 Trying to check if an arg is just a plain "one char" and not a \command

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=737911

My goal is to make the following distinction: is my arg a one character or is it a \command like in these samples: 
{a} -> Yes 
{\AAllArrows} -> No. 
The problem of my code: it appends the string ... 
[detokenize] [stringstrings]
 

asked by Joseph Marie https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=146600 Score of 8

answered by Joseph Wright https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=73 Score of 5

11.15.1.4 What's the best TeX system for font magic?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=738117

Long time lurker, first time poster. 
After a roughly twenty-year hiatus, I've returned to TeX to write a fiction book. The TeX landscape has changed considerably over that time. 
Plain TeX suits most ... 
[fonts] [luatex] [context] [plain-tex] [optex]
 

asked by Reed Meyer https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=381491 Score of 7

answered by Max Chernoff https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=270600 Score of 10

11.15.1.5 Using pgfmathresult within a node

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I'm trying to color the vertices (circles) of the grid one of three colors.  I've figured out how to color the label, but not the circle itself.  I would like something like 
\node[circle, fill=\... 
[tikz-pgf] [tikz-node]
 

asked by Amy Herron https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=324981 Score of 7

answered by muzimuzhi Z https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=79060 Score of 9

11.15.1.6 Matrix alignment in matrix

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I generate the diagram 
using the following code 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{amsmath} 
\begin{document} 
\begin{equation} 
\begin{matrix} 
&\begin{matrix} 
\... 
[matrices] [alignment]
 

asked by Yikun Qiao https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=198295 Score of 7

answered by invictus https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=325861 Score of 5

11.15.1.7 Verbatim with unicode, line breaks, and inline math

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=738170

I'm looking for a verbatim environment that supports unicode, line breaks, and inline math. 
The closest I got is 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{textgreek} 
\usepackage{fvextra} % also loads ... 
[verbatim]
 

asked by Zohar Levi https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=34827 Score of 6

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4427 Score of 6