12.17.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

12.17.2.1 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

12.17.2.2 Why does \\ not return a new line in an equation?

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\begin{equation*}\label{eq:pareto mle2} 
A_0 = \frac{1}{(\alpha+t_x)^{r+s+x}}{}_2F_1\left(r+s+x,x+1;r+s+x+1;\frac{\alpha-\beta}{\alpha + t_x} \right ) "\\\" <br> 
- \frac{1}{(\alpha+T)^{r+s+x}}{}... 
[equations] [line-breaking]
 

asked by user3714137 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=60029 Score of 123

answered by Mico https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5001 Score of 57

12.17.2.3 TeXnicCenter & Adobe Reader DC

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=250472

How to configure TeXnicCenter to work with Adobe Reader DC? When I building and view current file .tex the following error "Can not execute the command" shows up and the PDF is not generated. 
If there ... 
[pdf] [texniccenter] [adobe]
 

asked by Walter Silva https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=80192 Score of 66

answered by JiAo\231A~\[DiscretionaryHyphen] ChmelA~\[DiscretionaryHyphen]k https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=82051 Score of 88

12.17.2.4 pdfTeX error (font expansion): auto expansion is only possible with scalable

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=10706

I'm using a custom class file. 
My main file looks like this: 
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{thesis} 
\begin{document} 
\frontmatter 
\pagenumbering{alph} 
\pagenumbering{roman} 
\clearpage 
... 
[fonts] [errors] [microtype] [font-expansion]
 

asked by Elmer https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3338 Score of 122

12.17.2.5 How to include SVG diagrams in LaTeX?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=2099

I'm making all my diagrams in SVG format using Inkscape and then I export them to some other format (e.g. PDF, EPS or PNG). I wrote a short script that does this for me automatically, but I'd like to ... 
[graphics] [svg]
 

asked by Martin Tapankov https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=711 Score of 745

answered by Speravir https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9237 Score of 235

12.17.2.6 How to create fixed width table columns with text raggedright/centered/raggedleft?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=12703

I would like to create a table with some columns' width specified, while the text in those columns should be centered both horizontally and vertically. I found out that 
\usepackage{array} 
\begin{... 
[tables] [horizontal-alignment] [width]
 

asked by Covi https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3970 Score of 323

answered by lockstep https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=510 Score of 486

12.17.2.7 Remove 'active contents' from PDF file that was converted from LaTeX?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=469693

I recently rewrote my CV in LaTeX using Overleaf.com. Once I finished writing my CV in LaTeX, I downloaded it as a PDF. I'm now trying to upload my CV on brassring (careers website) and every time I ... 
[pdf] [convert]
 

asked by Spov https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=179309 Score of 24

answered by simarmannsingh https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=173084 Score of 23