6.36.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

6.36.2.1 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

6.36.2.2 How to include SVG diagrams in LaTeX?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=2099

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=711 545 votes

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

6.36.2.3 How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=39017

How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX? 
This is a general question and should collect useful answers for all users. I hope we can use this as a reference 
[floats] [positioning]
 

asked by Marco Daniel https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5239 632 votes

answered by Frank Mittelbach https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=10109 906 votes

6.36.2.4 "Correct" way to bold/italicize text?

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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 391 votes

answered by Todd Lehman https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=8499 378 votes

6.36.2.5 Tabular: title above and caption below?

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I have a table that I would like to put the Title above and a caption below. Intuitively (though I know how troublesome intuition can be in something like LaTeX), I should be able to do as below: 
... 
[tables] [captions]
 

asked by Alec https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2457 68 votes

answered by Alan Munn https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2693 43 votes

6.36.2.6 Multi-line (block) comments in LaTeX

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=87303

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 222 votes

answered by guillem https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3941 174 votes

6.36.2.7 Matrix in Latex

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I am new to Latex, and I have been trying to get the matrix of following form 
[x11 x12 x13 . . . . x1n 
x21 x22 x23 . . . . x2n 
. 
. 
. 
. 
xd1 xd2 xd3 . . . . xdn] 
... 
[matrices]
 

asked by Lakshmi Narayanan https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=63361 122 votes

answered by skpblack https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=42912 187 votes