7.28.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

7.28.2.1 How to add a forced line break inside a table cell

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=2441

I have some text in a table and I want to add a forced line break. I want to insert a forced line break without having to specify the column width, i.e. something like the following: 
\begin{tabular}{|... 
[tables] [line-breaking]
 

asked by Denilson SA~\[DownExclamation] Maia https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=375 742 votes

answered by Bernard https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=38908 506 votes

7.28.2.2 Matrix in Latex

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=204621

I am new to Latex, and I have been trying to get the matrix of following form 
[x11 x12 x13 . . . . x1n 
x21 x22 x23 . . . . x2n 
. 
. 
. 
. 
xd1 xd2 xd3 . . . . xdn] 
... 
[matrices]
 

asked by Lakshmi Narayanan https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=63361 130 votes

answered by skpblack https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=42912 199 votes

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

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=2369

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=996 284 votes

answered by Stefan Kottwitz https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=213 250 votes

7.28.2.4 Reduce space between enumerated items

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=6081

Background 
All book figures are set to "here definitely" (as they must come after the text that introduces them). 
Problem 
The list types (enumerated and bullet) have too much space between them. ... 
[spacing] [floats] [lists] [vertical-alignment] [positioning]
 

asked by Dave Jarvis https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2148 172 votes

answered by lockstep https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=510 21 votes

7.28.2.5 "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=10 100 votes

answered by Antal Spector-Zabusky https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1425 92 votes

7.28.2.6 Change line spacing inside the document

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=83855

This is my code 
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{book} 
\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.5} 
\begin{document} 
\include{Chapter1} 
\end{document} 
I have please a question: 
I would change the line ... 
[line-spacing]
 

asked by researcher https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=16097 138 votes

7.28.2.7 Commenting out large sections

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=17816

To "comment out" a line, I need to insert a % at the beginning of the line (so that the line will not be compiled). 
Is there a way to comment out a large section without having to manually ... 
[comments]
 

asked by user5419 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5419 376 votes

answered by Martin Scharrer https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2975 294 votes