6.21.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

6.21.2.1 How to change certain pages into landscape/portrait mode

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?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/digest?cta=user&id=183 317 votes

answered by rcs https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=118 331 votes

6.21.2.2 Column and row padding in tables

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=31672

How do you guys go about controlling column padding in tables? 
Update 
To clarify, I'm looking for a way to control both vertical and horizontal padding. So, if I had a simple table like in the  ... 
[tables] [spacing] [columns]
 

asked by JustDanyul https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=8615 336 votes

answered by Werner https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5764 287 votes

6.21.2.3 Force figure placement in text

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=8625

I have a problem when a lot of figures are in question. Some figures tend to "fly around", that is, be a paragraph below, although I placed them before that paragraph. I use code: 
\begin{figure}[ht] 
... 
[floats] [positioning] [captions]
 

asked by Marin https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2755 494 votes

answered by Juan A. Navarro https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=169 600 votes

6.21.2.4 How to typeset the symbol '^' (caret/circumflex/hat)

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=77646

I need to display the symbol '^' 
d <- dist(fascores, method = "euclidean")^2 
How do I do that? 
[symbols]
 

asked by Cost https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=17205 226 votes

answered by Qrrbrbirlbel https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=16595 309 votes

6.21.2.5 How to create fixed width table columns with text raggedright/centered/raggedleft?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=12703

I would like to create a table with some columns' width specified, while the text in those columns should be centered both horizontally and vertically. I found out that 
\usepackage{array} 
... 
[tables] [horizontal-alignment] [width]
 

asked by Covi https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3970 257 votes

answered by lockstep https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=510 396 votes

6.21.2.6 Real number symbol (UTF-8: a^\204\235) in XeTeX

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=104274

How can I get the 'real number' sign (something like \mathbb{R} with the amssymb package in LaTeX) in XeTeX? 
[math-mode] [xetex] [symbols] [amsmath] [plain-tex]
 

asked by lvaneesbeeck https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=24686 122 votes

answered by lvaneesbeeck https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=24686 10 votes

6.21.2.7 Keeping tables/figures close to where they are mentioned

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=2275

Is there any package or a method to force LaTeX to keep floating environments like table and figure closer to where they are declared? 
[floats] [positioning]
 

asked by artimess https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=833 336 votes

answered by Stefan Kottwitz https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=213 343 votes