11.31.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

11.31.2.1 How to write two dot above a letter?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=152951

the two dots above a letter represents two derivative of varible t. 
My method: 
\documentclass[UTF8]{ctexart} 
\usepackage{amsmath} 
\usepackage{amssymb} 
\usepackage{graphicx} 
\usepackage{epstopdf} 
\... 
[math-mode] [accents]
 

asked by mma https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=43727 Score of 152

answered by Cain https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=28428 Score of 208

11.31.2.2 Showcase of beautiful typography done in TeX & friends

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=1319

If you were asked to show examples of beautifully typeset documents in TeX & friends, what would you suggest? Preferably documents available online (I'm aware I could go to a bookstore and find ... 
[typography] [big-list] [examples]
 

asked by wishihadabettername https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=564 Score of 1010

answered by raphink https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=951 Score of 637

11.31.2.3 Is there a way to slightly shrink a table, including font size, to fit within the column boundaries?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=10863

I have a table that is just a little too wide for a 3.33" column. Is there a way to simply shrink the table a little to make it fit? I'm OK if the 10pt font becomes 9pt-something. Here is an example. 
... 
[tables] [scaling]
 

asked by Nathan Farrington https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3504 Score of 212

answered by Martin Scharrer https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2975 Score of 309

11.31.2.4 How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=39017

How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX? 
This is a general question and should collect useful answers for all users. I hope we can use this as a reference 
[floats] [positioning]
                                                                                  

                                                                                  
 

asked by Marco Daniel https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5239 Score of 737

answered by Frank Mittelbach https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=10109 Score of 1056

11.31.2.5 Underscores in words (text)

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=48632

How can I produce the text Word_one_two in LaTeX? 
I tried: 
Samp\_Dist\_Corr 
But, it doesn't quite look right. Also, I want it in the typewriter font, so actually, I'm doing: 
\texttt{Samp\_Dist\... 
[characters] [typewriter]
 

asked by Flux Capacitor https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=11728 Score of 258

answered by David Carlisle https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1090 Score of 215

11.31.2.6 pdfTeX error (font expansion): auto expansion is only possible with scalable

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=10706

I'm using a custom class file. 
My main file looks like this: 
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{thesis} 
\begin{document} 
\frontmatter 
\pagenumbering{alph} 
\pagenumbering{roman} 
\clearpage 
... 
[fonts] [errors] [microtype] [font-expansion]
 

asked by Elmer https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3338 Score of 117

11.31.2.7 BibTeX loses capitals when creating .bbl file

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=10772

Titles of articles I'm about to cite contain upper case letters and when using BibTeX it converts them to lower case ones. This happens only in the title and only the first letter conserves its case. ... 
[bibtex] [capitalization]
 

asked by Crowley https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=649 Score of 367

answered by Yossi Gil https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3391 Score of 383