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David Carlisle

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How can I explain the meaning of LaTeX to my grandma?

answered Jan 22, 2013 at 17:30

456 votes

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Why is \[ ... \] preferable to $$ ... $$?

answered Sep 2, 2012 at 20:31

421 votes

What are the most common mistakes that beginners of (La)TeX and Friends make?

answered Oct 21, 2013 at 11:33

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Drawbacks of xspace

answered Dec 11, 2012 at 22:47

234 votes

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When to use \par and when \\, \newline, or blank lines

answered Nov 14, 2012 at 1:07

201 votes

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Underscores in words (text)

answered Mar 19, 2012 at 22:33

200 votes

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What are penalties and which ones are defined?

answered Apr 9, 2012 at 11:09

188 votes

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Use LaTeX to simulate old typewriter written texts

answered Dec 15, 2016 at 22:39

176 votes

No hyphen for a word

answered Aug 17, 2012 at 14:20

144 votes

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What is the meaning of \fussy, \sloppy, \emergencystretch, \tolerance, \hbadness?

answered Apr 30, 2015 at 9:04

135 votes

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Do I have to care about bad boxes?

answered Apr 5, 2012 at 12:23

122 votes

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typesetting modulus operator, as in remainder

answered Jan 30, 2012 at 22:55

114 votes

What is the difference between \relax and {}?

answered Dec 10, 2012 at 16:20

107 votes

Absolute Value Symbols

answered Feb 1, 2012 at 10:32

104 votes

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{(x+y)}^2 or (x+y)^2?

answered Mar 23, 2013 at 23:54

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difference between \vspace and \vspace* for negative arguments

answered Oct 10, 2012 at 8:20

103 votes

What does \z@ do?

answered May 11, 2012 at 12:58

102 votes

When should we use \begin{center} instead of \centering?

answered May 28, 2013 at 22:47

100 votes

What does the phrase "Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph" actually mean?

answered Oct 15, 2016 at 16:35

94 votes

How was TeX output visualised on screen, back in the day?

answered Apr 20, 2013 at 13:45

94 votes

Draw an aircraft with Tikz

answered May 17, 2013 at 21:33

90 votes

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On the basics of writing to & reading from auxiliary files (.aux, .toc, etc.)

answered May 24, 2013 at 12:05

88 votes

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Holiday contest! Drawing a picture of Krampus for Yule

answered Dec 12, 2013 at 2:51

87 votes

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How to add line break to caption without using caption package

answered Mar 9, 2013 at 12:01

84 votes

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Write 'text' correctly in equations

answered Aug 28, 2013 at 15:45

83 votes

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Display ' apostrophe

answered Apr 22, 2014 at 17:06

83 votes

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\varepsilon vs. \epsilon

answered Feb 13, 2013 at 11:06

81 votes

Reducing font size in equation

answered Jun 19, 2012 at 20:55

79 votes

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Align multiline equation with expression after equal sign

answered Mar 27, 2013 at 22:56

79 votes

Why is LaTeX free?

answered Oct 4, 2017 at 8:01

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