1.18.1 Top new questions this week

1.18.1.1 Creating a default preamble

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/278817/creating-a-default-preamble

Since I am using (almost) the same set up for my tex documents, I wonder if there is a way to create a preamble with my default packages and to recall it anytime I want to create a tex document. 
If  ...
 

- asked by Yorgos (15 votes), answered by Romain Picot (17 votes)

1.18.1.2 Location of superscript in LaTeX

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/278480/location-of-superscript-in-latex

From the attached figure, you can see the star on the left-hand side is higher than the star on the right-hand side. Is it possible to lower the star on the left to the same height as the right-hand  ...
 

- asked by Patrick Li (13 votes), answered by Henri Menke (19 votes)

1.18.1.3 Does the comment symbol % remove the carriage return at the end of the line?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/278146/does-the-comment-symbol-remove-the-carriage-return-at-the-end-of-the-line

I find LaTeX a little bit inconsistent on this. Do the following experiments: 
The code 
a.% 
b 
will produce a.b, while the code 
a. 
b 
will produce a. b. Looks like the comment symbol % has  ...
 

- asked by user92080 (12 votes), answered by David Carlisle (20 votes)

1.18.1.4 Aligning matrices

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/278826/aligning-matrices

Sorry if this might be a very banal question. I am fairly new to LaTeX and I am having issues with matrices alignment. I am trying to achieve pretty much what is shown in this picture, I have tried  ...
 

- asked by user92347 (9 votes), answered by Mico (6 votes)

1.18.1.5 draw salts and ions with education purposes

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/278584/draw-salts-and-ions-with-education-purposes

I want to draw some schematic representations of salts for educational purposes. The figure shows a example which can be generated with the metapost code below. I would like to improve the draws in  ...
 

- asked by Jorge (8 votes), answered by Symbol 1 (8 votes)

1.18.1.6 How to generate robust verbatim bibliography data

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/278864/how-to-generate-robust-verbatim-bibliography-data

I'm trying to generate a .bib-shaped "biblatex" database from a git change log. A typical(?) item looks like this: 
@gitcommit{f1750d6, 
author = {Brent Longborough}, 
date = {2013-12-15}, 
title =  ...
 

- asked by Brent.Longborough (8 votes), answered by moewe (6 votes)

1.18.1.7 Writing a word with the length of another word

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/278720/writing-a-word-with-the-length-of-another-word

Ive got a quick question: How can I create text that has the length (or all the dimensions) of another string? What I mean is: 
Have latex write TEXT, but let it be printed as having the dimensions of  ...
 

- asked by Michael A (8 votes), answered by Au101 (6 votes)