9.24.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

9.24.2.1 Changing the font size in a table

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=27097

What's the recommend way of changing the font size in a particular table? Is there a better way than enclosing all values with, for example, the \tiny function. 
[tables] [floats] [fontsize]
 

asked by csgillespie https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=224 Score of 241

answered by lockstep https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=510 Score of 154

9.24.2.2 Keeping tables/figures close to where they are mentioned

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=2275

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 381

answered by Stefan Kottwitz https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=213 Score of 385

9.24.2.3 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 237

9.24.2.4 How do I change the `enumerate` list format to use letters instead of the default Arabic numerals?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=2291

I've seen documentation whereby an \alph command is put around the \begin{enumerate} somewhere, but I'm not entirely sure how that operates... 
[numbering] [lists] [enumerate]
 

asked by Billy ONeal https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=192 Score of 411

answered by frabjous https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=411 Score of 363

9.24.2.5 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 118

answered by latex user https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=25372 Score of 162

9.24.2.6 What is the LaTeX command for "em dash" (a^\200\224)?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=53413

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 357

answered by Keks Dose https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4736 Score of 384

9.24.2.7 The \bar and \overline commands

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=22100

I want to represent, say, the closure of a set or the extended reals, e.g., $\bar{\mathbb{R}}$ but unfortunately this creates a bar that is much too small (horizontally) and can barely be seen. On the ... 
[stacking-symbols]
 

asked by 3Sphere https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=6487 Score of 182

answered by Danie Els https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1683 Score of 100