5.14.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

5.14.2.1 Is there a way to slightly shrink a table, including font size, to fit within the column boundaries?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=10863

I have a table that is just a little too wide for a 3.33" column. Is there a way to simply shrink the table a little to make it fit? I'm OK if the 10pt font becomes 9pt-something. Here is an example. 
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[tables] [scaling]
 

asked by Nathan Farrington https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=3504 112 votes

answered by Martin Scharrer https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=2975 162 votes

5.14.2.2 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 49 votes

answered by Ulrike Fischer https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=2388 50 votes

5.14.2.3 What is the difference between \dfrac and \frac?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=135389

The title says it all, both \dfrac{a}{b} and \frac{a}{b} make fractions, so what is the difference between the two? 
[math-mode] [amsmath]
 

asked by YYC https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=37383 101 votes

5.14.2.4 Which dot character to use in which context?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=19180

Wikipedia lists several dot characters in Unicode.  These are the ones that are ambiguous to me: 
interpunct, middle dot (A^\[CenterDot])   ·   ·   U+00B7   "midpoint (in typography)" 
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[symbols] [best-practices] [punctuation] [unicode] [unicode-math]
 

asked by endolith https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=5773 146 votes

5.14.2.5 What can I use to typeset MATLAB code in my document?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=75116

This question led to a new package: 
matlab-prettifier 
Does anybody have a quick and easy way to typeset some relatively long MATLAB code in the appendix? I looked up a few methods, and the  ... 
[listings] [highlighting] [matlab]
 

asked by suzu https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=19279 91 votes

5.14.2.6 LaTeX Editors/IDEs

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=339

What editors/IDEs are available for easing the process of writing TeX/LaTeX documents? 
Please state some useful features like code completion, spell checking, building final DVI or PDF files, etc. 
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[editors] [big-list] [ide]
 

asked by hayalci https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=183 789 votes

answered by YuppieNetworking https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=146 329 votes

5.14.2.7 What is the LaTeX command for "em dash" (a^\200\224)?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=53413

I am trying to insert the symbol in the title of the question, which I copied from a PDF article, but it appears as space in the output file. What is the corresponding LaTeX command? 
[symbols] [punctuation]
 

asked by Tarek https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=13964 217 votes

answered by Keks Dose https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=4736 228 votes