6.43.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

6.43.2.1 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

6.43.2.2 Using multicolumn in latex

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I want to create a table like this using Latex 
|               sets            | 
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |  ... 
[multicolumn]
 

asked by mahmood https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=36294 72 votes

answered by m0nhawk https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9790 101 votes

6.43.2.3 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 68 votes

6.43.2.4 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 223 votes

answered by guillem https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3941 175 votes

6.43.2.5 Real number symbol (UTF-8: a^\204\235) in XeTeX

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How can I get the 'real number' sign (something like \mathbb{R} with the amssymb package in LaTeX) in XeTeX? 
[math-mode] [xetex] [symbols] [amsmath] [plain-tex]
 

asked by lvaneesbeeck https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=24686 129 votes

answered by lvaneesbeeck https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=24686 10 votes

6.43.2.6 Absolute Value Symbols

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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 259 votes

answered by Peter Grill https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4301 192 votes

6.43.2.7 LaTeX Editors/IDEs

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What editors/IDEs are available for easing the process of writing TeX/LaTeX documents? 
Please state some useful features like code completion, spell checking, building final DVI or PDF files, etc. 
... 
[editors] [big-list] [ide]
                                                                                  

                                                                                  
 

asked by hayalci https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=183 845 votes

answered by YuppieNetworking https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=146 345 votes