11.85.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

11.85.2.1 Changing the font size in a table
11.85.2.2 How can I manually install a package on MiKTeX (Windows)
11.85.2.3 What are all the font styles I can use in math mode?
11.85.2.4 What is the "correct" way of embedding text into math mode?
11.85.2.5 Package natbib Error: Bibliography not compatible with author-year citations
11.85.2.6 Typeset the shrug A^\257\_(a~\203\204)_/A^\257 emoji
11.85.2.7 Real number symbol (UTF-8: a^\204\235) in XeTeX
11.85.2.1 Changing the font size in a table

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=27097

What's the recommend way of changing the font size in a particular table? Is there a better way than enclosing all values with, for example, the \tiny function. 
[tables] [floats] [fontsize]
 
asked by csgillespie https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=224 Score of 266
answered by lockstep https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=510 Score of 171
11.85.2.2 How can I manually install a package on MiKTeX (Windows)

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=2063

I'm new to LaTeX, investigating using it for some work projects.  I'm using MiKTeX on Windows.  My employer's locked-down network blocks the application's automatic installation function.  I can take ... 
[packages] [installing] [miktex] [windows]
 
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answered by Stefan Kottwitz https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=213 Score of 200
11.85.2.3 What are all the font styles I can use in math mode?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=58098

As can be seen in above picture, there are lots of fonts or font styles that can be used in math mode. 
What are all the fonts or font styles I can use in math mode, and which packages are required in ... 
[fonts] [math-mode] [big-list] [latin-modern] [computer-modern]
 
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answered by Christian https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=13450 Score of 821
11.85.2.4 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 312
11.85.2.5 Package natbib Error: Bibliography not compatible with author-year citations

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=54480

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]
 
asked by grrrbytes https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=13217 Score of 290
answered by Josh Porter https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=15128 Score of 154
11.85.2.6 Typeset the shrug A^\257\_(a~\203\204)_/A^\257 emoji

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I'm completing a problem set, one problem for which I literally have no idea what to do on. The graders would prefer to have a physical copy of the problem so I thought it best to include the A^\257\_(a~\203\204)_/A^\257... 
[unicode] [characters] [fun]
 
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answered by mickep https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=52406 Score of 39
11.85.2.7 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