4.18.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

4.18.2.1 TeXnicCenter & Adobe Reader DC

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?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  ... 
[pdf] [texniccenter] [adobe]
 

asked by Walter Silva https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=80192 50 votes

answered by JiAo\231A~\[DiscretionaryHyphen] ChmelA~\[DiscretionaryHyphen]k https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=82051 67 votes

4.18.2.2 How can I get bold math symbols?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=595

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]
 

asked by Michael Underwood https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=32 326 votes

answered by Mark Meckes https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=206 281 votes

4.18.2.3 Multi-line (block) comments in LaTeX

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=87303

In LaTeX, % can be used for single-line comments. For multi-line comments, the following command is available in the verbatim package. 
\begin{comment} 
Commented code 
\end{comment} 
But is there a  ... 
[comments]
 

asked by Arindam Pal https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=17379 155 votes

answered by guillem https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=3941 111 votes

4.18.2.4 No indent in the first paragraph in a section?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=39227

I am just curious that the following format looks good to you or not? The preamble I used is just 
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article} 
\usepackage{amsmath} 
\usepackage{amsthm} 
\usepackage{amssymb} 
... 
[sectioning] [indentation] [paragraphs] [typography]
 

asked by user565739 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=8971 112 votes

4.18.2.5 What is the degree symbol?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=384873

In order to have the following output involving the degree symbol 
I can try 
\documentclass{report} 
\begin{document} 
The angle is 30$^\circ$. 
\end{document} 
However, this is an awkward manner to  ... 
[typography] [degrees]
 

asked by Viesturs https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=114719 29 votes

answered by Ulrike Fischer https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=2388 29 votes

4.18.2.6 How can I split an equation over two (or more) lines

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=3782

I am having the following equation: 
\begin{equation} 
Q(\lambda,\hat{\lambda}) = -\frac{1}{2} P(O \mid \lambda ) \sum_s \sum_m \sum_t \gamma_m^{(s)} (t) \left( n \log(2 \pi ) + \log \left| C_m^{(s)}  ... 
[math-mode] [equations] [line-breaking] [breqn]
 

asked by Peter Smit https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=459 187 votes

answered by Will Robertson https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=179 132 votes

4.18.2.7 Real number symbol (UTF-8: a^\204\235) in XeTeX

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?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/newsletter?cta=user&id=24686 69 votes