6.71.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

6.71.2.1 Is there any way to do a correct word count of a LaTeX document?

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Often assignments (or even papers) have a word count limit. That is not a big deal when using Word, but I don't know how to do that using LaTeX. My solution has been so far to compile the document and ... 
[packages] [compiling] [word-count] [scripts]
 

asked by Vivi https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=14 375 votes

answered by ShreevatsaR https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=48 202 votes

6.71.2.2 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. 
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asked by biased_estimator https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=996 279 votes

answered by Stefan Kottwitz https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=213 245 votes

6.71.2.3 Subfigures side by side with captions

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I am using the following code to put my two figures side by side with different captions, 
\begin{figure*}[t!] 
\centering 
\begin{subfigure}[b]{0.5\textwidth} 
\centering 
\... 
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asked by Sait https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=14611 100 votes

answered by latex user https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=25372 136 votes

6.71.2.4 Big Parenthesis in an Equation

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I have an equation contained inside \[...\], which automatically makes a \sum with sub- and superscripts turn big--so that the summation sign looks awkward inside parenthesis.  Any idea how to make ... 
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asked by jamaicanworm https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9757 197 votes

answered by qubyte https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9043 290 votes

6.71.2.5 Why does \\ not return a new line in an equation?

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\begin{equation*}\label{eq:pareto mle2} 
A_0 = \frac{1}{(\alpha+t_x)^{r+s+x}}{}_2F_1\left(r+s+x,x+1;r+s+x+1;\frac{\alpha-\beta}{\alpha + t_x} \right ) "\\\" <br> 
- \frac{1}{(\alpha+T)^{r+s+x}}{}... 
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asked by user3714137 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=60029 81 votes

answered by Mico https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5001 43 votes

6.71.2.6 How to align a set of multiline equations

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I am trying to align a set of long equations, that are themselves align environments as most of them are spreading on multiple lines. 
Currently I just have a sequence of align environments, with ... 
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asked by Thomas 122 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=11737 107 votes

6.71.2.7 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 ... 
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asked by Arindam Pal https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=17379 231 votes

answered by guillem https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3941 182 votes