8.58.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

8.58.2.1 Showcase of beautiful typography done in TeX & friends

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=1319

If you were asked to show examples of beautifully typeset documents in TeX & friends, what would you suggest? Preferably documents available online (I'm aware I could go to a bookstore and find ... 
[typography] [big-list] [examples]
 

asked by wishihadabettername https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=564 Score of 956

answered by raphink https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=951 Score of 611

8.58.2.2 How to write a function (piecewise) with bracket outside?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=32140

How to write this Piecewise function using LaTeX? 
I tried 
$ 
\begin{array}{cc} 
\{ & 
\begin{array}{cc} 
0 & x\leq 0 \\ 
\frac{100-x}{100} & 0\leq x\leq 100 \\ 
0 & ... 
[math-mode] [equations] [brackets]
 

asked by GarouDan https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5314 Score of 196

answered by Ant https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=6984 Score of 249

8.58.2.3 Subfigures side by side with captions

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=119984

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]
 

asked by Sait https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=14611 Score of 117

answered by latex user https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=25372 Score of 159

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

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=10863

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]
 

asked by Nathan Farrington https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3504 Score of 181

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

8.58.2.5 Which dot character to use in which context?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=19180

Wikipedia lists several dot characters in Unicode.  These are the ones that are ambiguous to me: 
interpunct, middle dot (A^\[CenterDot])   ·   ·   U+00B7   "midpoint (in typography)" 
... 
[symbols] [best-practices] [punctuation] [unicode] [unicode-math]
 

asked by endolith https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5773 Score of 224

answered by Danie Els https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1683 Score of 147

8.58.2.6 How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=39017

How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX? 
This is a general question and should collect useful answers for all users. I hope we can use this as a reference 
[floats] [positioning]
 

asked by Marco Daniel https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5239 Score of 698

answered by Frank Mittelbach https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=10109 Score of 1004

8.58.2.7 How to add indentation

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=45501

I am writing a thesis report using LaTeX and I need to add indentations because every new paragraph starts from the initial position on the left. 
How do I add indentations? 
[spacing] [indentation]
 

asked by pavani https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9327 Score of 132

answered by Frank Mittelbach https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=10109 Score of 88