12.19.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

12.19.2.1 Change image size
12.19.2.2 How to change color for a block of texts?
12.19.2.3 Superscript outside math mode
12.19.2.4 Forcing linebreaks in \url
12.19.2.5 How to write 'A~\[Currency]' and other umlauts and accented letters in bibliography?
12.19.2.6 How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX?
12.19.2.7 Show equation number only once in align environment
12.19.2.1 Change image size

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=64836

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 Score of 128
answered by DJJerome https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2863 Score of 121
12.19.2.2 How to change color for a block of texts?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=17104

I am editing a LaTeX paper with Emacs. Sometimes I want to make a block of texts less obvious (or less important to see). Instead of totally hiding them, they should still be there. Is there an easy ... 
[color]
 
asked by SoftTimur https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5110 Score of 376
answered by Martin Scharrer https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2975 Score of 455
12.19.2.3 Superscript outside math mode

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=47324

What is the easiest way to superscript text outside of math mode? 
For example, let's say I want to write the $n^{th}$ element, but without the math mode's automatic italicization of the th.  And what ... 
[superscripts]
 
asked by jamaicanworm https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9757 Score of 589
answered by Werner https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5764 Score of 857
12.19.2.4 Forcing linebreaks in \url

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=3033

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]
 
asked by Suresh https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=103 Score of 375
answered by Suresh https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=103 Score of 268
12.19.2.5 How to write 'A~\[Currency]' and other umlauts and accented letters in bibliography?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=57743

How to write in bibliography (package natbib) letter "a" with two dots above? Specially, I mean the word BirkhA~\[Currency]user. 
Is there a general rule or way how to write such umlauts or other accented letters ... 
[bibtex] [accents] [characters]
 
asked by Laura https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=14475 Score of 439
answered by Mico https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5001 Score of 594
12.19.2.6 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 743
answered by Frank Mittelbach https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=10109 Score of 1064
12.19.2.7 Show equation number only once in align environment

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=17528

I want the equation number to be shown only at the last line, or better, somewhere in the middle of all. So instead of (1), (2), ... only (1). 
I use \begin{align} ... \end{align} 
[equations] [align]
 
asked by Bogdan https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5350 Score of 297
answered by Gonzalo Medina https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3954 Score of 277