11.30.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

11.30.2.1 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 133

answered by latex user https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=25372 Score of 188

11.30.2.2 Big Parenthesis in an Equation

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=38868

I have an equation contained inside \[...\], which automatically makes a \sum with sub- and superscripts turn big--so that the summation sign looks awkward inside parenthesis.  Any idea how to make ... 
[math-mode] [delimiters]
 

asked by jamaicanworm https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9757 Score of 270

answered by qubyte https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9043 Score of 397

11.30.2.3 Real number symbol (UTF-8: a^\204\235) in XeTeX

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=104274

How can I get the 'real number' sign (something like \mathbb{R} with the amssymb package in LaTeX) in XeTeX? 
[math-mode] [xetex] [symbols] [amsmath] [plain-tex]
 

asked by lvaneesbeeck https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=24686 Score of 182

answered by lvaneesbeeck https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=24686 Score of 13

11.30.2.4 Absolute Value Symbols

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What is the "best LaTeX practices" for writing absolute value symbols?  Are there any packages which provide good methods? 
Some options include|x| and \mid x \mid, but I'm not sure which is best... 
[math-mode] [symbols]
 

asked by jamaicanworm https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9757 Score of 340

answered by Peter Grill https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4301 Score of 256

11.30.2.5 What is the "correct" way of embedding text into math mode?

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Lets say I have something like: 
\[ Let x = number of cats \] 
(This is a contrived example, but pretend we are actually inside a long align environment block...) "Let" and "number of cats" need to be ... 
[math-mode]
 

asked by Billy ONeal https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=192 Score of 307

11.30.2.6 inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8: not set up for use with LaTeX

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=83440

This is with ref to my previous question Package clash in multilingual report. 
\documentclass[11pt,table,a4paper]{article} 
\usepackage{lmodern} 
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} 
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} 
\... 
[errors] [unicode] [languages] [cyrillic] [input-encodings]
 

asked by Manish https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=19116 Score of 138

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4427 Score of 102

11.30.2.7 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 435

answered by ShreevatsaR https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=48 Score of 240