6.41.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

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

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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=996 272 votes

answered by Stefan Kottwitz https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=213 239 votes

6.41.2.2 making appendix for thesis

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I need some help with creating an appendix for my thesis. I have about 10 figures which need to be in the appendix. I have a good appendix with the following code: 
\appendix 
... 
[appendices] [thesis]
 

asked by user13017 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=13017 190 votes

answered by Gonzalo Medina https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3954 208 votes

6.41.2.3 How to install "vanilla" TeXLive on Debian or Ubuntu?

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Debian and Ubuntu have very good texlive packaging. But I'd like to use tlmgr to have a more fine-grained control about upgrades and which packages I want to be installed. 
So how do I install  ... 
[packages] [texlive] [installing] [linux] [tlmgr]
 

asked by Dima https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=137 292 votes

answered by frabjous https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=411 80 votes

6.41.2.4 Error in TeX Live a^\200\223 Font ... not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found

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I freshly installed 'basic' version of TeX Live 2012 (not full, only basic version). 
I have following line in my code: 
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} 
I get following error: 
... 
[fonts] [errors] [packages] [texlive] [font-encodings]
 

asked by abhinavkulkarni https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=12992 128 votes

answered by mpg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1239 97 votes

6.41.2.5 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=14 413 votes

answered by Stefan Kottwitz https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=213 145 votes

6.41.2.6 How to add indentation

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I am writing a thesis report using LaTeX and I need to add indentations because every new paragraph starts from the initial position on the left. 
How do I add indentations? 
[spacing] [indentation]
 

asked by pavani https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9327 96 votes

answered by Frank Mittelbach https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=10109 67 votes

6.41.2.7 Changing the font size in a table

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What's the recommend way of changing the font size in a particular table? Is there a better way than enclosing all values with, for example, the \tiny function. 
[tables] [floats] [fontsize]
 

asked by csgillespie https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=224 187 votes

answered by lockstep https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=510 122 votes