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Seasonal Challenge (Contributions from TeXing Dead Welcome)

Why shouldn't I use getnonfreefonts to install additional fonts? Why shouldn't I use updmap when installing or removing fonts?

How does one pick control points to control Bézier curves in TikZ?

Which packages should I recommend to postgraduates in different academic disciplines?

Adobe eats hospitalised hedgehogs: Reader 2017 reports PDFs as damaged

What is the correct way to handle approximate dates in biblatex?

What is the most appropriate way to configure biblatex for use with an unsupported language?

Demonic correspondence: Best practices when defining devils in TiKZ

Is there a correct way to prevent a galley cutout from repeating later without modifying the body of the document?

Understanding Biblatex's abbreviations

Avoid @ hackery: How can I preserve spaces in a format specification when processing the specification with expl3 and PGF/TikZ?

What is the simplest way to extract a URL from a .bib entry for use in \href{}{} (probably using Biblatex)?

What is the recommended way to respond to bug reports for font packages where the bug is caused by characters missing from fonts?

What is the recommended way to protect a TeX Live file from updates with no changes or to auto-patch it on such updates?

Biblatex is zeroing Bob! Is Biblatex incompatible with titling, Memoir and more?

Too many Aristotles, too many Averroeses and too many semi-colons in Biblatex: how can I make \citeauthor behave more like \textcite?

How can I display the possible hyphenation points for words in a language other than US English?

How to include crossrefs in bib files generated by biber --output-format=bibtex

Why do colours defined using CMYK give inconsistent results in TikZ mindmaps?

How can I stop LaTeX from leaving too little room between the contents of a contents line and the page number?

What is the (relevant!) difference between \file_input:n and \input? Or has something else changed?

How to apply colour options to the contents of TikZ nodes when the content includes \sbox{}\usebox{}?

How can I convince texcount that my use of \newcolumntype is perfectly valid syntax?

The following code compiles without error. How can I change that?

Undefined sequence error with calligraphy tikz library

Choosing property lists vs. key-value lists in expl3

How to respond to conflicting environment names in published packages which I inadvertently inflicted on an unsuspecting public?

What is the most elegant way to cite two things connected by a 'joining word' with biblatex?

Is it possible to combine version and range when specifying a maths font with unicode-math?

Why does an empty \textwidth coffin lose width when joined with another?