12.18.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

12.18.2.1 Why is \newpage ignored sometimes ?
12.18.2.2 How do I put text over symbols?
12.18.2.3 What are the available "documentclass" types and their uses?
12.18.2.4 Why do the less than symbol (<) and the greater than symbol (>) appear wrong as upside down exclamation (A^\[DownExclamation]) or question mark (A^\[DownQuestion])?
12.18.2.5 How to add an empty line between paragraphs?
12.18.2.6 Forcing linebreaks in \url
12.18.2.7 Multi-line (block) comments in LaTeX
12.18.2.1 Why is \newpage ignored sometimes ?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=2958

I have the following towards the end of an article. The bibliography is short (4 entries). 
What's happening is that on the very last page of document I get the chart and immediately afterwards the ... 
[floats] [page-breaking]
 
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12.18.2.2 How do I put text over symbols?

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This is difficult for me to explain, but how do I put words over a symbol? For instance, I want to add words over an equal sign. Anyone know the command/syntax for that? 
Also adding ^ doesn't cut it..... 
[syntax]
 
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answered by Gonzalo Medina https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3954 Score of 134
12.18.2.3 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]
 
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12.18.2.4 Why do the less than symbol (<) and the greater than symbol (>) appear wrong as upside down exclamation (A^\[DownExclamation]) or question mark (A^\[DownQuestion])?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=2369

When typing < or > in LaTeX and compiling with pdflatex, the less than and greater than symbols appear at upside down exclamation points. I'm not in math mode. 
[symbols] [punctuation] [font-encodings]
 
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answered by Stefan Kottwitz https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=213 Score of 301
12.18.2.5 How to add an empty line between paragraphs?

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I have two sections which I'd like to separate by an empty line. Every time I press Enter, LyX removes that empty line between paragraphs. How do I prevent this? 
[spacing] [lyx]
 
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answered by Werner https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5764 Score of 191
12.18.2.6 Forcing linebreaks in \url

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This question led to a new package: 
xurl 
I wish to typeset some relatively long URLs in a piece of text, and when I use \url{..}, the resulting text does not respect the margin boundaries that govern ... 
[line-breaking] [urls]
 
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12.18.2.7 Multi-line (block) comments in LaTeX

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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]
 
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