6.19.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

6.19.2.1 What is the "correct" way of embedding text into math mode?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=3415

Lets say I have something like: 
\[ Let x = number of cats \] 
(This is a contrived example, but pretend we are actually inside a long align environment block...) "Let" and "number of cats" need to  ... 
[math-mode]
 

asked by Billy ONeal https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=192 217 votes

6.19.2.2 How to typeset subscript in usual text mode?

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It's easy to make subscripts in math mode: $a_i$. 
How do I make a subscript outside math environment, likethis? 
[subscripts]
 

asked by P Shved https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=280 233 votes

answered by Stefan Kottwitz https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=213 144 votes

6.19.2.3 Error in TeX Live a^\200\223 Font ... not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found

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I freshly installed 'basic' version of TeX Live 2012 (not full, only basic version). 
I have following line in my code: 
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} 
I get following error: 
... 
[fonts] [errors] [packages] [texlive] [font-encodings]
 

asked by abhinavkulkarni https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=12992 124 votes

answered by mpg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1239 93 votes

6.19.2.4 inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8: not set up for use with LaTeX

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=83440

This is with ref to my previous question Package clash in multilingual report. 
\documentclass[11pt,table,a4paper]{article} 
\usepackage{lmodern} 
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} 
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} 
... 
[errors] [unicode] [languages] [cyrillic] [input-encodings]
 

asked by Manish https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=19116 111 votes

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4427 86 votes

6.19.2.5 Is there any way to do a correct word count of a LaTeX document?

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Often assignments (or even papers) have a word count limit. That is not a big deal when using Word, but I don't know how to do that using LaTeX. My solution has been so far to compile the document and  ... 
[packages] [compiling] [word-count] [scripts]
 

asked by Vivi https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=14 358 votes

answered by ShreevatsaR https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=48 193 votes

6.19.2.6 Why is \newpage ignored sometimes ?

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I have the following towards the end of an article. The bibliography is short (4 entries). 
What's happening is that on the very last page of document I get the chart and immediately afterwards the  ... 
[floats] [page-breaking]
 

asked by wishihadabettername https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=564 135 votes

answered by Will Robertson https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=179 189 votes

6.19.2.7 Syntax similar to \centering for right and left?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=91566

For images we can use \centering is there anything to position the image to right side or left side of the page. 
[graphics] [horizontal-alignment]
 

asked by sachin irukula https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=24343 124 votes