6.29.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

6.29.2.1 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=183 324 votes

answered by rcs https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=118 339 votes

6.29.2.2 How to write 'A~\[Currency]' and other umlauts and accented letters in bibliography?

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How to write in bibliography (package natbib) letter "a" with two dots above? Specially, I mean the word BirkhA~\[Currency]user. 
Is there a general rule or way how to write such umlauts or other accented letters  ... 
[bibtex] [accents] [characters]
 

asked by Laura https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=14475 357 votes

answered by Mico https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5001 468 votes

6.29.2.3 Why do the less than symbol (<) and the greater than symbol (>) appear wrong as upside down exclamation (A^\[DownExclamation]) or question mark (A^\[DownQuestion])?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=2369

When typing < or > in LaTeX and compiling with pdflatex, the less than and greater than symbols appear at upside down exclamation points. I'm not in math mode. 
[symbols] [punctuation] [font-encodings]
 

asked by biased_estimator https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=996 269 votes

answered by Stefan Kottwitz https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=213 236 votes

6.29.2.4 Omitting the date when using \maketitle

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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

6.29.2.5 How to include SVG diagrams in LaTeX?

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I'm making all my diagrams in SVG format using Inkscape and then I export them to some other format (e.g. PDF, EPS or PNG). I wrote a short script that does this for me automatically, but I'd like to  ... 
[graphics] [svg]
 

asked by Martin Tapankov https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=711 540 votes

answered by Martin H https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=632 295 votes

6.29.2.6 What are the available "documentclass" types and their uses?

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Some of the available classes of documents in LaTeX are well known and widely used, such as the article and beamer classes, while others are not so well known, such as the standalone class. 
I found  ... 
[document-classes] [big-list]
 

asked by Vivi https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=14 411 votes

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

6.29.2.7 Force figure placement in text

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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 501 votes

answered by Juan A. Navarro https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=169 608 votes