11.38.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

11.38.2.1 Is there any way to do a correct word count of a LaTeX document?
11.38.2.2 Where do I place my own .sty or .cls files, to make them available to all my .tex files?
11.38.2.3 How to write 'A~\[Currency]' and other umlauts and accented letters in bibliography?
11.38.2.4 Omitting the date when using \maketitle
11.38.2.5 How can I get bold math symbols?
11.38.2.6 When should I use \input vs. \include?
11.38.2.7 Commenting out large sections
11.38.2.1 Is there any way to do a correct word count of a LaTeX document?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=534

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]
 
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11.38.2.2 Where do I place my own .sty or .cls files, to make them available to all my .tex files?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=1137

I know how to define a package or a class, but how do I make it available (to myself) at all times? 
Say I have the package file commonstuff.sty (or myprettyclass.cls), that I want to be able to ... 
[packages] [installing] [document-classes] [texmf]
 
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answered by Stefan Kottwitz https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=213 Score of 413
11.38.2.3 How to write 'A~\[Currency]' and other umlauts and accented letters in bibliography?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=57743

How to write in bibliography (package natbib) letter "a" with two dots above? Specially, I mean the word BirkhA~\[Currency]user. 
Is there a general rule or way how to write such umlauts or other accented letters ... 
[bibtex] [accents] [characters]
 
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11.38.2.4 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 415
11.38.2.5 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 571
11.38.2.6 When should I use \input vs. \include?

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There are two different commands to incorporate another file into the source of some document, \input and \include. When should I use one or the other? What are the differences between them? Are there ... 
[include] [input]
 
asked by Phil Miller https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=60 Score of 1538
answered by Michael Mrozek https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=29 Score of 1439
11.38.2.7 Commenting out large sections

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To "comment out" a line, I need to insert a % at the beginning of the line (so that the line will not be compiled). 
Is there a way to comment out a large section without having to manually ... 
[comments]
 
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