8.85.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

8.85.2.1 tlmgr cannot setup TLPDB

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=137428

I'm trying to update my installation of texlive 2013 under Ubuntu 13.10. 
However, I followed the instruction on this answer, but I get an error 
(running on Debian, switching to user mode!) 
cannot ... 
[errors] [texlive] [ubuntu]
 

asked by adn https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=7561 Score of 236

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

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=2441

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 Score of 840

answered by Bernard https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=38908 Score of 650

8.85.2.3 Tabular: title above and caption below?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=15282

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 Score of 75

answered by Alan Munn https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2693 Score of 53

8.85.2.4 What point (pt) font size are \Large etc.?

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In the preamble I have: 
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article} 
\usepackage{fontspec} 
\setmainfont{Arial} 
What can be inferred about the real font pt size for the following? 
\tiny, \scriptsize, \... 
[fontsize] [class-options]
 

asked by Level1Coder https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=6825 Score of 281

8.85.2.5 Why is \newpage ignored sometimes ?

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I have the following towards the end of an article. The bibliography is short (4 entries). 
What's happening is that on the very last page of document I get the chart and immediately afterwards the ... 
[floats] [page-breaking]
 

asked by wishihadabettername https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=564 Score of 174

answered by Will Robertson https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=179 Score of 262

8.85.2.6 How to write partial differential equation (Ex. dQ/dt=ds/dt) with real partial derivative signs?

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I would like to make a partial differential equation by using the following notation: 
dQ/dt 
(without / but with a real numerator and denomenator). Earlier today I got help from this page on how to ... 
[equations]
 

asked by David https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=71265 Score of 130

answered by Sebastiano https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=117876 Score of 11

8.85.2.7 What are all the font styles I can use in math mode?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=58098

As can be seen in above picture, there are lots of fonts or font styles that can be used in math mode. 
What are all the fonts or font styles I can use in math mode, and which packages are required in ... 
[fonts] [math-mode] [big-list] [latin-modern] [computer-modern]
 

asked by doncherry https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4012 Score of 561

answered by Christian https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=13450 Score of 718