6.26.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

6.26.2.1 Multi-line (block) comments in LaTeX

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In LaTeX, % can be used for single-line comments. For multi-line comments, the following command is available in the verbatim package. 
\begin{comment} 
Commented code 
\end{comment} 
But is there a  ... 
[comments]
 

asked by Arindam Pal https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=17379 218 votes

answered by guillem https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3941 168 votes

6.26.2.2 BibTeX loses capitals when creating .bbl file

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Titles of articles I'm about to cite contain upper case letters and when using BibTeX it converts them to lower case ones. This happens only in the title and only the first letter conserves its case.  ... 
[bibtex] [capitalization]
 

asked by Crowley https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=649 265 votes

answered by Yossi Gil https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3391 267 votes

6.26.2.3 Align equation left

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Here is my split equation: 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{amsmath} 
\begin{document} 
\begin{equation} 
\begin{split} 
a_{ijk} =& \frac {Pr(M_{I} =2  \&  M_J=1 \& M_K =1 | I=i , J=j ,  ... 
[equations] [align]
 

asked by user35571 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=35571 70 votes

answered by Ludovic C. https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=31058 72 votes

6.26.2.4 How to use \multirow

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I can compile this table separately but when I want to compile the whole file, it gives me an error, which is fixed by removing \multirow. 
\usepackage{multirow} 
\begin{table}[htbp] 
\begin{center} 
... 
[tables] [multirow]
 

asked by anna https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=18922 92 votes

answered by Gonzalo Medina https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3954 148 votes

6.26.2.5 How to force a table into page width?

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I have the following table: 
\begin{table}[htb] 
\begin{tikzpicture} 
\node (table) [inner sep=0pt] { 
\begin{tabular}{ l | l } 
{\bf Symptom} & {\bf Metric} \\ 
\hline 
Class that has many accessor  ... 
[tables] [margins]
 

asked by RoflcoptrException https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3316 223 votes

answered by Martin Scharrer https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2975 191 votes

6.26.2.6 How can I make an enumerate list start at something other than 1?

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Sometimes, I want to have enumerate lists in LaTeX start at other than the first value (1, a, i, etc.) How can I make an enumerate list start at an arbitrary value? 
[lists] [numbering] [enumerate]
 

asked by vanden https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=93 416 votes

answered by ShreevatsaR https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=48 499 votes

6.26.2.7 The \bar and \overline commands

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I want to represent, say, the closure of a set or the extended reals, e.g., $\bar{\mathbb{R}}$ but unfortunately this creates a bar that is much too small (horizontally) and can barely be seen. On the  ... 
[stacking-symbols]
 

asked by 3Sphere https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=6487 144 votes

answered by Danie Els https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1683 82 votes