5.11.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

5.11.2.1 Command for argmin or argmax?
5.11.2.2 Using the \tab Command
5.11.2.3 Big Parenthesis in an Equation
5.11.2.4 How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX?
5.11.2.5 Omitting the date when using \maketitle
5.11.2.6 Tabular: title above and caption below?
5.11.2.7 Forcing linebreaks in \url
5.11.2.1 Command for argmin or argmax?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=5223

How can you get the argmin or argmax in Latex? Two solutions I found are: 
\underset{x}{\operatorname{argmax}} 
\DeclareMathOperator*{\argmin}{arg\,min} 
Any other ideas? 
[1]  ... 
[math-mode] [symbols] [math-operators]
 
asked by Alejandro https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=1128 188 votes
answered by Jan Hlavacek https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=396 182 votes
5.11.2.2 Using the \tab Command

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=198432

I have seen several cases of people using the \tab command to insert a specific amount of space between objects (as opposed to the \hfill command which uses any remaining space).  However, I have  ... 
[spacing]
 
asked by Mathematician https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=49199 38 votes
answered by Mathematician https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=49199 38 votes
5.11.2.3 Big Parenthesis in an Equation

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?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/newsletter?cta=user&id=9757 153 votes
answered by qubyte https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=9043 228 votes
5.11.2.4 How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=39017

How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX? 
This is a general question and should collect useful answers for all users. I hope we can use this as a reference 
[floats] [positioning]
 
asked by Marco Daniel https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=5239 580 votes
answered by Frank Mittelbach https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=10109 845 votes
5.11.2.5 Omitting the date when using \maketitle

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=2760

I'm using the \author and \title commands to produce a title with \maketitle. I also know that there is a \date command to specify the date of my work. However, if I omit \date, \maketitle will  ... 
[titles] [datetime]
 
asked by lockstep https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=510 238 votes
answered by frabjous https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=411 220 votes
5.11.2.6 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 Alan Munn https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=2693 35 votes
5.11.2.7 Forcing linebreaks in \url

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=3033

I wish to typeset some relatively long URLs in a piece of text, and when I use \url{..}, the resulting text does not respect the margin boundaries that govern the main text body, instead going all the  ... 
[line-breaking] [urls]
 
asked by Suresh https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=103 207 votes
answered by Suresh https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=103 164 votes