9.17.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

9.17.2.1 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]
 

asked by LearnToGrow https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=41010 Score of 110

answered by karlkoeller https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=27635 Score of 172

9.17.2.2 Error in TeX Live a^\200\223 Font ... not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found

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I freshly installed 'basic' version of TeX Live 2012 (not full, only basic version). 
I have following line in my code: 
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} 
I get following error: 
(/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-... 
[fonts] [errors] [packages] [texlive] [font-encodings]
 

asked by abhinavkulkarni https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=12992 Score of 144

answered by mpg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1239 Score of 108

9.17.2.3 Keeping tables/figures close to where they are mentioned

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Is there any package or a method to force LaTeX to keep floating environments like table and figure closer to where they are declared? 
[floats] [positioning]
 

asked by artimess https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=833 Score of 379

answered by Stefan Kottwitz https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=213 Score of 384

9.17.2.4 Is there any way to do a correct word count of a LaTeX document?

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Often assignments (or even papers) have a word count limit. That is not a big deal when using Word, but I don't know how to do that using LaTeX. My solution has been so far to compile the document and ... 
[packages] [compiling] [word-count] [scripts]
 

asked by Vivi https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=14 Score of 413

answered by ShreevatsaR https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=48 Score of 221

9.17.2.5 Align equation left

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Here is my split equation: 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{amsmath} 
\begin{document} 
\begin{equation} 
\begin{split} 
a_{ijk} =& \frac {Pr(M_{I} =2  \&  M_J=1 \& M_K =1 | I=i , J=j , K=... 
[equations] [align]
 

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answered by Ludovic C. https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=31058 Score of 110

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

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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 206

answered by Ant https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=6984 Score of 256

9.17.2.7 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]
 

asked by Tarek https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=13964 Score of 355

answered by Keks Dose https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4736 Score of 383