9.31.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

9.31.2.1 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 Score of 647

answered by Juan A. Navarro https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=169 Score of 781

9.31.2.2 "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 Score of 107

9.31.2.3 Multi-line (block) comments in LaTeX

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=87303

In LaTeX, % can be used for single-line comments. For multi-line comments, the following command is available in the verbatim package. 
\begin{comment} 
Commented code 
\end{comment} 
But is there a ... 
[comments]
 

asked by Arindam Pal https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=17379 Score of 331

answered by guillem https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3941 Score of 263

9.31.2.4 "Correct" way to bold/italicize text?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=41681

Is either of these considered better/more readable/more "proper"/more conventional than the other for making text bold? If so, what is the reason? 
I like my text \textbf{bold} 
versus: 
I like my ... 
[best-practices] [bold] [italic]
 

asked by user541686 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2694 Score of 506

answered by Todd Lehman https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=8499 Score of 461

9.31.2.5 Command for argmin or argmax?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=5223

How can you get the argmin or argmax in Latex? Two solutions I found are: 
\underset{x}{\operatorname{argmax}} 
\DeclareMathOperator*{\argmin}{arg\,min} 
Any other ideas? 
[1]http://www.breakthru.... 
[math-mode] [symbols] [math-operators]
 

asked by Alejandro https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1128 Score of 299

answered by Jan Hlavacek https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=396 Score of 326

9.31.2.6 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] [resources]
 

asked by hayalci https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=183 Score of 913

answered by YuppieNetworking https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=146 Score of 361

9.31.2.7 How to vertically-center the text of the cells?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=7208

I have a simple table as follows: 
\begin{table*} 
\centering 
\begin{tabular}{|l|c|c|c|c|p{2in}|} 
... 
... 
\end{tabular} 
\caption{The factors the camera solver depends on to ... 
[tables] [vertical-alignment]
 

asked by Rafid https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2418 Score of 186

answered by Second Person Shooter https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2099 Score of 46