11.68.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

11.68.2.1 Forcing linebreaks in \url

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=3033

This question led to a new package: 
xurl 
I wish to typeset some relatively long URLs in a piece of text, and when I use \url{..}, the resulting text does not respect the margin boundaries that govern ... 
[line-breaking] [urls]
 

asked by Suresh https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=103 Score of 372

answered by Suresh https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=103 Score of 267

11.68.2.2 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 184

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

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

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=3415

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

11.68.2.4 How to add indentation

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=45501

I am writing a thesis report using LaTeX and I need to add indentations because every new paragraph starts from the initial position on the left. 
How do I add indentations? 
[spacing] [indentation]
 

asked by pavani https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9327 Score of 157

answered by Frank Mittelbach https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=10109 Score of 107

11.68.2.5 Align equation left

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=145657

Here is my split equation: 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{amsmath} 
\begin{document} 
\begin{equation} 
\begin{split} 
a_{ijk} =& \frac {Pr(M_{I} =2  \&  M_J=1 \& M_K =1 | I=i , J=j , K=... 
[equations] [align]
 

asked by user35571 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=35571 Score of 150

answered by Ludovic C. https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=31058 Score of 139

11.68.2.6 Scale image to page width?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=39147

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]
 

asked by hhh https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2956 Score of 299

answered by Werner https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5764 Score of 285

11.68.2.7 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 423

answered by frabjous https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=411 Score of 420