8.3.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

8.3.2.1 How to add a forced line break inside a table cell

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I have some text in a table and I want to add a forced line break. I want to insert a forced line break without having to specify the column width, i.e. something like the following: 
\begin{tabular}{|... 
[tables] [line-breaking]
 

asked by Denilson SA~\[DownExclamation] Maia https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=375 786 votes

answered by Bernard https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=38908 566 votes

8.3.2.2 Tabular: title above and caption below?

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I have a table that I would like to put the Title above and a caption below. Intuitively (though I know how troublesome intuition can be in something like LaTeX), I should be able to do as below: 
\... 
[tables] [captions]
 

asked by Alec https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2457 73 votes

answered by Alan Munn https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2693 51 votes

8.3.2.3 How to create fixed width table columns with text raggedright/centered/raggedleft?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=12703

I would like to create a table with some columns' width specified, while the text in those columns should be centered both horizontally and vertically. I found out that 
\usepackage{array} 
\begin{... 
[tables] [horizontal-alignment] [width]
 

asked by Covi https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3970 283 votes

answered by lockstep https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=510 440 votes

8.3.2.4 Big Parenthesis in an Equation

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I have an equation contained inside \[...\], which automatically makes a \sum with sub- and superscripts turn big--so that the summation sign looks awkward inside parenthesis.  Any idea how to make ... 
[math-mode] [delimiters]
 

asked by jamaicanworm https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9757 230 votes

answered by qubyte https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9043 328 votes

8.3.2.5 Reduce space between enumerated items

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Background 
All book figures are set to "here definitely" (as they must come after the text that introduces them). 
Problem 
The list types (enumerated and bullet) have too much space between them. ... 
[spacing] [floats] [lists] [vertical-alignment] [positioning]
 

asked by Dave Jarvis https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2148 184 votes

answered by lockstep https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=510 23 votes

8.3.2.6 Changing the font size in a table

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=27097

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]
 

asked by csgillespie https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=224 219 votes

answered by lockstep https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=510 141 votes

8.3.2.7 Multi-line (block) comments in LaTeX

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In LaTeX, % can be used for single-line comments. For multi-line comments, the following command is available in the verbatim package. 
\begin{comment} 
Commented code 
\end{comment} 
But is there a ... 
[comments]
 

asked by Arindam Pal https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=17379 275 votes

answered by guillem https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3941 216 votes