5.8.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

5.8.2.1 How to avoid numbering the first page of the document?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=54333

I have two sections before the table of contents. 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{lipsum} 
\begin{document} 
\thispagestyle{empty} 
\section*{First random title} \lipsum[1] 
\section*{Second random  ... 
[page-numbering]
 

asked by Chris https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=13994 134 votes

answered by Werner https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=5764 138 votes

5.8.2.2 Absolute Value Symbols

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=43008

What is the "best LaTeX practices" for writing absolute value symbols?  Are there any packages which provide good methods? 
Some options include|x| and \mid x \mid, but I'm not sure which is best... 
[math-mode] [symbols]
 

asked by jamaicanworm https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=9757 205 votes

answered by Peter Grill https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=4301 165 votes

5.8.2.3 Adding more than one author with different affiliation

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=9594

My goal is adding more than one author with different affiliations, it will look like something: 
Author A, Author B, Author C, Author D and Author E 
A,B,C Department of Computer Science 
... 
[titles] [authblk]
 

asked by berkay https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=3115 103 votes

5.8.2.4 Tabular: title above and caption below?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=15282

I have a table that I would like to put the Title above and a caption below. Intuitively (though I know how troublesome intuition can be in something like LaTeX), I should be able to do as below: 
... 
[tables] [captions]
 

asked by Alec https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=2457 55 votes

answered by Herbert https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=2478 41 votes

5.8.2.5 How to change certain pages into landscape/portrait mode

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=337

How can I change some pages into document into landscape mode, while leaving the others in portrait mode (or vice versa)? 
[landscape]
 

asked by hayalci https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=183 269 votes

answered by rcs https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=118 279 votes

5.8.2.6 How to type special/accented letters in LaTeX?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=8857

How to type these special letters from European languages in latex? 
A~\[Currency], A~(c), and L'? 
[symbols] [languages] [characters] [accents]
 

asked by user2918 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=2918 152 votes

answered by Kit https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=791 132 votes

5.8.2.7 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 133 votes