7.1.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

7.1.2.1 Force figure placement in text

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=8625

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 530 votes

answered by Juan A. Navarro https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=169 645 votes

7.1.2.2 LaTeX Editors/IDEs

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=339

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=183 854 votes

answered by YuppieNetworking https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=146 347 votes

7.1.2.3 LaTeX template for resume/curriculum vitae

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=80

If you have a TeX'ed resume, did you use a template or make your own? Are there any useful packages? What looks the most professional? How about special considerations for different areas of work (e.g.... 
[packages] [templates] [cv]
 

asked by Otis https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=8 530 votes

answered by Konrad Rudolph https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=42 214 votes

7.1.2.4 What point (pt) font size are \Large etc.?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=24599

In the preamble I have: 
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article} 
\usepackage{fontspec} 
\setmainfont{Arial} 
What can be inferred about the real font pt size for the following? 
\tiny, \scriptsize, \... 
[fontsize] [class-options]
 

asked by Level1Coder https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=6825 260 votes

answered by Alan Munn https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2693 408 votes

7.1.2.5 How to add todo notes?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=9796

Is there a simple way to add todo notes to LaTeX documents ? 
I would like to have these notes in red in the generated pdf and a simple syntax to write them. 
[todonotes]
 

asked by aneuryzm https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3182 289 votes

7.1.2.6 Which dot character to use in which context?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=19180

Wikipedia lists several dot characters in Unicode.  These are the ones that are ambiguous to me: 
interpunct, middle dot (A^\[CenterDot])   ·   ·   U+00B7   "midpoint (in typography)" 
... 
[symbols] [best-practices] [punctuation] [unicode] [unicode-math]
 

asked by endolith https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5773 194 votes

answered by Danie Els https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1683 128 votes

7.1.2.7 What is the "correct" way of embedding text into math mode?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=3415

Lets say I have something like: 
\[ Let x = number of cats \] 
(This is a contrived example, but pretend we are actually inside a long align environment block...) "Let" and "number of cats" need to ... 
[math-mode]
 

asked by Billy ONeal https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=192 239 votes