6.27.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

6.27.2.1 Omitting the date when using \maketitle

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?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/digest?cta=user&id=510 279 votes

answered by frabjous https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=411 265 votes

6.27.2.2 How to write partial differential equation (Ex. dQ/dt=ds/dt) with real partial derivative signs?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=225523

I would like to make a partial differential equation by using the following notation: 
dQ/dt 
(without / but with a real numerator and denomenator). Earlier today I got help from this page on how to  ... 
[equations]
 

asked by David https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=71265 88 votes

answered by Benjamin McKay https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=19327 6 votes

6.27.2.3 How to type special/accented letters in LaTeX?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=8857

How to type these special letters from European languages in latex? 
A~\[Currency], A~(c), and L'? 
[symbols] [languages] [characters] [accents]
 

asked by user2918 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2918 189 votes

answered by Kit https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=791 157 votes

6.27.2.4 Absolute Value Symbols

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=43008

What is the "best LaTeX practices" for writing absolute value symbols?  Are there any packages which provide good methods? 
Some options include|x| and \mid x \mid, but I'm not sure which is best... 
[math-mode] [symbols]
 

asked by jamaicanworm https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9757 255 votes

answered by Peter Grill https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4301 188 votes

6.27.2.5 "Correct" way to bold/italicize text?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=41681

Is either of these considered better/more readable/more "proper"/more conventional than the other for making text bold? If so, what is the reason? 
I like my text \textbf{bold} 
versus: 
I like my  ... 
[best-practices] [bold] [italic]
 

asked by user541686 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2694 388 votes

answered by Todd Lehman https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=8499 373 votes

6.27.2.6 Making the bibliography appear in the table of contents

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=8458

I need to make my (BibTeX) references section appear in the table of contents of my LaTeX document (documentclass: article), with section numbering too. 
My approach until now has been making a new  ... 
[sectioning] [table-of-contents] [bibliographies]
 

asked by Genba https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2311 179 votes

answered by lockstep https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=510 133 votes

6.27.2.7 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 258 votes

answered by lockstep https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=510 400 votes