7.14.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

7.14.2.1 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=192 244 votes

7.14.2.2 Making the bibliography appear in the table of contents

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=8458

I need to make my (BibTeX) references section appear in the table of contents of my LaTeX document (documentclass: article), with section numbering too. 
My approach until now has been making a new ... 
[sectioning] [table-of-contents] [bibliographies]
 

asked by Genba https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2311 197 votes

answered by lockstep https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=510 152 votes

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

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=75166

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: 
(/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-... 
[fonts] [errors] [packages] [texlive] [font-encodings]
 

asked by abhinavkulkarni https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=12992 133 votes

answered by mpg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1239 99 votes

7.14.2.4 Keeping tables/figures close to where they are mentioned

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=2275

Is there any package or a method to force LaTeX to keep floating environments like table and figure closer to where they are declared? 
[floats] [positioning]
 

asked by artimess https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=833 353 votes

answered by Stefan Kottwitz https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=213 359 votes

7.14.2.5 How do I align an image to centre?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=53862

How do I align an image to centre? 
In a beamer presentation I have a 2-3 items on a slide followed by an image. 
The image is not wide enough to cover whole slide, so it leaves around 30% space from ... 
[beamer] [horizontal-alignment]
 

asked by epsilon8 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=12860 63 votes

7.14.2.6 Package natbib Error: Bibliography not compatible with author-year citations

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=54480

I have a basic tex file and a bibliography which is exported from Mendeley 
However, when I want to cite in the author-year style, I get the error: 
Package natbib Error: Bibliography not compatible ... 
[bibtex] [errors] [natbib]
 

asked by grrrbytes https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=13217 229 votes

answered by Josh Porter https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=15128 126 votes

7.14.2.7 "inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8" error while trying to write a degree symbol (invisible character)

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=4268

No matter how I try to do it I always get the following error : 
! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:A^\[DiscretionaryHyphen] not set up for use with LaTeX. 
I have tried using A^\[DiscretionaryHyphen]A^\[DiscretionaryHyphen]A^\[DiscretionaryHyphen]$^{\circ}$, \deg, \textdegree, ... 
[symbols] [unicode]
 

asked by levesque https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=10 99 votes

answered by Antal Spector-Zabusky https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1425 91 votes