10.80.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

10.80.2.1 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 157

10.80.2.2 Package natbib Error: Bibliography not compatible with author-year citations

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I have a basic tex file and a bibliography which is exported from Mendeley 
However, when I want to cite in the author-year style, I get the error: 
Package natbib Error: Bibliography not compatible ... 
[bibtex] [errors] [natbib]
 

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answered by Josh Porter https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=15128 Score of 153

10.80.2.3 How can I get bold math symbols?

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To make Latin-letter variables bold I can use e.g. \mathbf{a}, but while putting Greek letters or symbols such as \nabla inside \mathbf doesn't cause any errors or warnings, it also doesn't do ... 
[fonts] [math-mode] [symbols] [bold]
 

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answered by Mark Meckes https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=206 Score of 560

10.80.2.4 Scale image to page width?

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I use 
\inclugraphics[scale=TRYING TO GUESS THE NUMBER FOR PAGE WIDTH]{...} 
but I find this errorsome, is there some ready flag to set the image to page width? I usually use PNG and JPG photos. 
[graphics] [scaling]
 

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answered by Werner https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5764 Score of 283

10.80.2.5 Multi-line (block) comments in LaTeX

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In LaTeX, % can be used for single-line comments. For multi-line comments, the following command is available in the verbatim package. 
\begin{comment} 
Commented code 
\end{comment} 
But is there a ... 
[comments]
 

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10.80.2.6 How to write partial differential equation (Ex. dQ/dt=ds/dt) with real partial derivative signs?

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I would like to make a partial differential equation by using the following notation: 
dQ/dt 
(without / but with a real numerator and denomenator). Earlier today I got help from this page on how to ... 
[equations]
 

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answered by Sebastiano https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=117876 Score of 22

10.80.2.7 Omitting the date when using \maketitle

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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]
 

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answered by frabjous https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=411 Score of 408