9.15.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

9.15.2.1 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 230

answered by Danie Els https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1683 Score of 150

9.15.2.2 LaTeX Editors/IDEs

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=339

What editors/IDEs are available for easing the process of writing TeX/LaTeX documents? 
Please state some useful features like code completion, spell checking, building final DVI or PDF files, etc. 
... 
[editors] [big-list] [ide] [resources]
 

asked by hayalci https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=183 Score of 911

answered by YuppieNetworking https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=146 Score of 361

9.15.2.3 How can I have two tables side by side?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=2832

Suppose I have two tables that don't have many columns (3, for example). How can I position them side by side? 
[tables] [positioning]
 

asked by bada https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=572 Score of 221

answered by TH. https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=647 Score of 199

9.15.2.4 Double line spacing

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=819

I would like to typeset a draft of my document with double linespacing so that my collaborators have space to write in their edits (with a pen).  How do I do it? 
[line-spacing] [setspace]
 

asked by Vebjorn Ljosa https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=35 Score of 238

answered by Stefan Kottwitz https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=213 Score of 175

9.15.2.5 making appendix for thesis

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=49643

I need some help with creating an appendix for my thesis. I have about 10 figures which need to be in the appendix. I have a good appendix with the following code: 
\appendix 
\addcontentsline{toc}{... 
[appendices] [thesis]
 

asked by user13017 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=13017 Score of 226

answered by Gonzalo Medina https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3954 Score of 238

9.15.2.6 How can I split an equation over two (or more) lines

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=3782

I am having the following equation: 
\begin{equation} 
Q(\lambda,\hat{\lambda}) = -\frac{1}{2} P(O \mid \lambda ) \sum_s \sum_m \sum_t \gamma_m^{(s)} (t) \left( n \log(2 \pi ) + \log \left| C_m^{(s)} ... 
[math-mode] [equations] [line-breaking] [breqn]
 

asked by Peter Smit https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=459 Score of 341

answered by Will Robertson https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=179 Score of 212

9.15.2.7 Using \footnote in a figure's \caption

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=10181

Maybe this is an easy one, but I struggled with this now too long :) 
I want to have a footnote in a caption of a figure, see the example. 
\begin{figure}[!ht] 
\caption{a figure caption\footnote{... 
[floats] [footnotes] [captions]
                                                                                  

                                                                                  
 

asked by Matten https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1125 Score of 311

answered by Dee https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=16059 Score of 228