7.48.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

7.48.2.1 Big Parenthesis in an Equation

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=38868

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 ... 
[math-mode] [delimiters]
 

asked by jamaicanworm https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9757 214 votes

answered by qubyte https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9043 311 votes

7.48.2.2 How to force a table into page width?

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I have the following table: 
\begin{table}[htb] 
\begin{tikzpicture} 
\node (table) [inner sep=0pt] { 
\begin{tabular}{ l | l } 
{\bf Symptom} & {\bf Metric} \\ 
\hline 
Class that has many accessor ... 
[tables] [margins]
 

asked by RoflcoptrException https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3316 263 votes

answered by Martin Scharrer https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2975 212 votes

7.48.2.3 Which dot character to use in which context?

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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 205 votes

answered by Danie Els https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1683 135 votes

7.48.2.4 How to change certain pages into landscape/portrait mode

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How can I change some pages into document into landscape mode, while leaving the others in portrait mode (or vice versa)? 
[landscape]
 

asked by hayalci https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=183 364 votes

answered by rcs https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=118 386 votes

7.48.2.5 What is the LaTeX command for "em dash" (a^\200\224)?

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I am trying to insert the symbol in the title of the question, which I copied from a PDF article, but it appears as space in the output file. What is the corresponding LaTeX command? 
[symbols] [punctuation]
 

asked by Tarek https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=13964 314 votes

answered by Keks Dose https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4736 345 votes

7.48.2.6 tlmgr cannot setup TLPDB

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=137428

I'm trying to update my installation of texlive 2013 under Ubuntu 13.10. 
However, I followed the instruction on this answer, but I get an error 
(running on Debian, switching to user mode!) 
cannot ... 
[errors] [texlive] [ubuntu]
 

asked by adn https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=7561 223 votes

answered by ppr https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=28474 212 votes

7.48.2.7 Change image size

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I'm trying to change the image size (make it look smaller than the original). 
I tried with the next code but the image still shows at its original size. 
\begin{figure}[h!] 
\centering 
\... 
[graphics]
                                                                                  

                                                                                  
 

asked by Enrique https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=16973 96 votes

answered by DJJerome https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2863 92 votes