10.13.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

10.13.2.1 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 323

answered by Dee https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=16059 Score of 238

10.13.2.2 What are the available "documentclass" types and their uses?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=782

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]
 

asked by Vivi https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=14 Score of 498

answered by Stefan Kottwitz https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=213 Score of 162

10.13.2.3 Problem with compiling BibTex: "no \citation commands" error

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=18045

I'm really new to BibTex, I just wonder what is going wrong when I have this kind of error when I try to compile my bibliography file. 
I found no \citation commands---while reading file masterthesis.... 
[bibliographies] [bibtex]
 

asked by zfm https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3559 Score of 116

answered by Spike https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5150 Score of 46

10.13.2.4 Omitting the date when using \maketitle

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=2760

I'm using the \author and \title commands to produce a title with \maketitle. I also know that there is a \date command to specify the date of my work. However, if I omit \date, \maketitle will ... 
[titles] [datetime]
 

asked by lockstep https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=510 Score of 402

answered by frabjous https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=411 Score of 398

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

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=75166

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 151

answered by mpg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1239 Score of 117

10.13.2.6 How do I align an image to center?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=53862

How do I align an image to center? 
In a beamer presentation I have a 2-3 items on a slide followed by an image. 
The image is not wide enough to cover whole slide, so it leaves around 30% space from ... 
[beamer] [horizontal-alignment]
 

asked by epsilon8 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=12860 Score of 82

answered by gcedo https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=13680 Score of 88

10.13.2.7 How to change color for a block of texts?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=17104

I am editing a LaTeX paper with Emacs. Sometimes I want to make a block of texts less obvious (or less important to see). Instead of totally hiding them, they should still be there. Is there an easy ... 
[color]
 

asked by SoftTimur https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5110 Score of 345

answered by Martin Scharrer https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2975 Score of 421