9.14.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

9.14.2.1 What are the available "documentclass" types and their uses?
9.14.2.2 Column and row padding in tables
9.14.2.3 How to force a table into page width?
9.14.2.4 How to center column values in a table?
9.14.2.5 Which dot character to use in which context?
9.14.2.6 Underscores in words (text)
9.14.2.7 How to prevent LaTeX from hyphenating the entire document?
9.14.2.1 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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9.14.2.2 Column and row padding in tables

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How do you guys go about controlling column padding in tables? 
Update 
To clarify, I'm looking for a way to control both vertical and horizontal padding. So, if I had a simple table like in the ... 
[tables] [spacing] [columns]
 
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9.14.2.3 How to force a table into page width?

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I have the following table: 
\begin{table}[htb] 
\begin{tikzpicture} 
\node (table) [inner sep=0pt] { 
\begin{tabular}{ l | l } 
{\bf Symptom} & {\bf Metric} \\ 
\hline 
Class that has many accessor ... 
[tables] [margins]
 
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9.14.2.4 How to center column values in a table?

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How can I center the column values in this code? 
\documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran} 
\begin{document} 
\begin{table} 
\centering 
\begin{tabular}{|p{2.5cm}|p{2.5cm}|p{2.5cm}|} 
\hline 
... 
[tables] [horizontal-alignment]
 
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9.14.2.5 Which dot character to use in which context?

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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]
 
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9.14.2.6 Underscores in words (text)

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How can I produce the text Word_one_two in LaTeX? 
I tried: 
Samp\_Dist\_Corr 
But, it doesn't quite look right. Also, I want it in the typewriter font, so actually, I'm doing: 
\texttt{Samp\_Dist\... 
[characters] [typewriter]
 
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9.14.2.7 How to prevent LaTeX from hyphenating the entire document?

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I can't find where I can remove any kind of hyphenation and just have LaTeX just do a line break. 
edit: 
Honestly speaking I just don't like to read hyphenation anywhere and that's the only reason why ... 
[hyphenation]
                                                                                  

                                                                                  
 
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