8.1.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

8.1.2.1 How to create fixed width table columns with text raggedright/centered/raggedleft?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=12703

I would like to create a table with some columns' width specified, while the text in those columns should be centered both horizontally and vertically. I found out that 
\usepackage{array} 
\begin{... 
[tables] [horizontal-alignment] [width]
 

asked by Covi https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3970 283 votes

answered by lockstep https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=510 440 votes

8.1.2.2 How to type special/accented letters in LaTeX?

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How to type these special letters from European languages in latex? 
A~\[Currency], A~(c), and L'? 
[symbols] [languages] [characters] [accents]
 

asked by user2918 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2918 219 votes

answered by Kit https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=791 184 votes

8.1.2.3 inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8: not set up for use with LaTeX

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This is with ref to my previous question Package clash in multilingual report. 
\documentclass[11pt,table,a4paper]{article} 
\usepackage{lmodern} 
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} 
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} 
\... 
[errors] [unicode] [languages] [cyrillic] [input-encodings]
 

asked by Manish https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=19116 125 votes

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4427 96 votes

8.1.2.4 "Correct" way to bold/italicize text?

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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 454 votes

answered by Todd Lehman https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=8499 425 votes

8.1.2.5 What are all the font styles I can use in math mode?

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As can be seen in above picture, there are lots of fonts or font styles that can be used in math mode. 
What are all the fonts or font styles I can use in math mode, and which packages are required in ... 
[fonts] [math-mode] [big-list] [latin-modern] [computer-modern]
 

asked by doncherry https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4012 523 votes

answered by Christian https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=13450 675 votes

8.1.2.6 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]
 

asked by biased_estimator https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=996 292 votes

answered by Stefan Kottwitz https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=213 260 votes

8.1.2.7 Making the bibliography appear in the table of contents

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=8458

I need to make my (BibTeX) references section appear in the table of contents of my LaTeX document (documentclass: article), with section numbering too. 
My approach until now has been making a new ... 
[sectioning] [table-of-contents] [bibliographies]
 

asked by Genba https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2311 220 votes

answered by lockstep https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=510 167 votes