7.45.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

7.45.2.1 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 
\... 
[captions] [subfloats]
 

asked by Sait https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=14611 114 votes

answered by latex user https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=25372 152 votes

7.45.2.2 Where do I place my own .sty or .cls files, to make them available to all my .tex files?

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I know how to define a package or a class, but how do I make it available (to myself) at all times? 
Say I have the package file commonstuff.sty (or myprettyclass.cls), that I want to be able to ... 
[packages] [installing] [document-classes] [texmf]
 

asked by Tomas Aschan https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=223 576 votes

answered by Stefan Kottwitz https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=213 370 votes

7.45.2.3 Using the \tab Command

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I have seen several cases of people using the \tab command to insert a specific amount of space between objects (as opposed to the \hfill command which uses any remaining space).  However, I have ... 
[spacing]
 

asked by Mathematician https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=49199 77 votes

answered by Mathematician https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=49199 88 votes

7.45.2.4 inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8: not set up for use with LaTeX

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This is with ref to my previous question Package clash in multilingual report. 
\documentclass[11pt,table,a4paper]{article} 
\usepackage{lmodern} 
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} 
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} 
\... 
[errors] [unicode] [languages] [cyrillic] [input-encodings]
 

asked by Manish https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=19116 123 votes

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4427 94 votes

7.45.2.5 How to type special/accented letters in LaTeX?

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How to type these special letters from European languages in latex? 
A~\[Currency], A~(c), and L'? 
[symbols] [languages] [characters] [accents]
 

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answered by Kit https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=791 178 votes

7.45.2.6 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=14 438 votes

answered by Stefan Kottwitz https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=213 154 votes

7.45.2.7 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 155 votes

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