12.3.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

12.3.2.1 Typeset the shrug A^\257\_(a~\203\204)_/A^\257 emoji

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=279100

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]
 

asked by djechlin https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=75452 Score of 68

answered by mickep https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=52406 Score of 39

12.3.2.2 Error in TeX Live a^\200\223 Font ... not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=75166

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 159

12.3.2.3 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]
 

asked by Tomas Aschan https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=223 Score of 659

answered by Stefan Kottwitz https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=213 Score of 415

12.3.2.4 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 272

answered by qubyte https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9043 Score of 399

12.3.2.5 Displaying the binomial coefficient symbol in math mode

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The problem is caused by the symbol of binomial coefficient (symbol of Newton), often used in math: 
{N}\choose{k} 
In my document I have formula: 
$$ P(A) = \sum P(\{ (e_1,...,e_N) \})  =  {N}\choose{... 
[math-mode] [symbols]
 

asked by MC2DX https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=21025 Score of 177

12.3.2.6 making appendix for thesis

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I need some help with creating an appendix for my thesis. I have about 10 figures which need to be in the appendix. I have a good appendix with the following code: 
\appendix 
\addcontentsline{toc}{... 
[appendices] [thesis]
 

asked by user13017 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=13017 Score of 237

answered by Gonzalo Medina https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3954 Score of 253

12.3.2.7 How to add todo notes?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=9796

Is there a simple way to add todo notes to LaTeX documents ? 
I would like to have these notes in red in the generated pdf and a simple syntax to write them. 
[todonotes]
                                                                                  

                                                                                  
 

asked by aneuryzm https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3182 Score of 360