2.49.1 Top new questions this week

2.49.1.1 Holiday present-ation vs. content contest

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/344818/holiday-present-ation-vs-content-contest

Need something to do during holiday break? Enter this holiday contest! 
Your challenge is to write a happyholidays class that will compile the following input document in the most creative,  ...
 

- asked by musarithmia (15 votes), answered by samcarter (17 votes)

2.49.1.2 Difference between \the, \showthe and \show commands?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/345185/difference-between-the-showthe-and-show-commands

I try to use these commands to print some geometrical parameters in my LaTeX source file to the terminal and the log file. However, sometimes there are problems after compilation with pdftex and it  ...
 

- asked by Vesnog (13 votes), answered by Piet van Oostrum (13 votes)

2.49.1.3 Has \textsubscript become a standard LaTeX command?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/344587/has-textsubscript-become-a-standard-latex-command

TeX Live comes with a helpful fragment package, subscript, the copyright notice of which runs as follows: 
% Copyright 1999 Robin Fairbairns 
% 
% this fragment is distributed under the conditions of  ...
 

- asked by n.r. (13 votes), answered by Joseph Wright (11 votes)

2.49.1.4 Why isn't a \vrule between \hfills centered?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/344551/why-isnt-a-vrule-between-hfills-centered

I have two boxes that fill up most of the width of a page, with a \vrule between them, with an \hfill on either side of the rule, so that the two boxes are pushed to either side of the page and the  ...
 

- asked by cg505 (9 votes), answered by siracusa (8 votes)

2.49.1.5 Applying a command to a whole column spawning "\ignorespaces"

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/344306/applying-a-command-to-a-whole-column-spawning-ignorespaces

I am trying to apply a styling command to every cell of a table's column. 
I define a new command invoking minted: 
\newcommand{\ccode}[1]{\mintinline{c}{#1}} 
And then, I apply this command in the  ...
 

- asked by Right leg (8 votes), answered by Heiko Oberdiek (7 votes)

2.49.1.6 Macro that reacts to the last symbol of the argument

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/344983/macro-that-reacts-to-the-last-symbol-of-the-argument

I would like to define a macro \mynode (to be used inside TikZ) whose behavior depends on the last symbol of its argument as follows: 
\mynode{text!} should produce 
\node[fill=red] at (0,0) {text}; 
...
 

- asked by MA"\201ris Ozols (7 votes), answered by egreg (7 votes)

2.49.1.7 XeTeX vs LuaTeX operator limits

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/344849/xetex-vs-luatex-operator-limits

To compare the \nolimits algorithms for operators for XeTeX and LuaTeX, I tested: 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{unicode-math} 
\setmathfont{xits-math.otf} 
\begin{document} 
\[ \int_0^\infty  ...
 

- asked by breeden 7votes