8.56.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

8.56.2.1 Subfigures side by side with captions

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I am using the following code to put my two figures side by side with different captions, 
\begin{figure*}[t!] 
\centering 
\begin{subfigure}[b]{0.5\textwidth} 
\centering 
\... 
[captions] [subfloats]
 

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8.56.2.2 What are the available "documentclass" types and their uses?

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Some of the available classes of documents in LaTeX are well known and widely used, such as the article and beamer classes, while others are not so well known, such as the standalone class. 
I found ... 
[document-classes] [big-list]
 

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answered by Stefan Kottwitz https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=213 Score of 159

8.56.2.3 How do I change the `enumerate` list format to use letters instead of the default Arabic numerals?

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I've seen documentation whereby an \alph command is put around the \begin{enumerate} somewhere, but I'm not entirely sure how that operates... 
[numbering] [lists] [enumerate]
 

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answered by frabjous https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=411 Score of 342

8.56.2.4 What is the LaTeX command for "em dash" (a^\200\224)?

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I am trying to insert the symbol in the title of the question, which I copied from a PDF article, but it appears as space in the output file. What is the corresponding LaTeX command? 
[symbols] [punctuation]
 

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answered by Keks Dose https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4736 Score of 372

8.56.2.5 Forcing linebreaks in \url

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This question led to a new package: 
xurl 
I wish to typeset some relatively long URLs in a piece of text, and when I use \url{..}, the resulting text does not respect the margin boundaries that ... 
[line-breaking] [urls]
 

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answered by Suresh https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=103 Score of 242

8.56.2.6 Is there a way to slightly shrink a table, including font size, to fit within the column boundaries?

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I have a table that is just a little too wide for a 3.33" column. Is there a way to simply shrink the table a little to make it fit? I'm OK if the 10pt font becomes 9pt-something. Here is an example. 
... 
[tables] [scaling]
 

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answered by Martin Scharrer https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2975 Score of 265

8.56.2.7 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]
 

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