9.13.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

9.13.2.1 Error in TeX Live a^\200\223 Font ... not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found

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I freshly installed 'basic' version of TeX Live 2012 (not full, only basic version). 
I have following line in my code: 
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} 
I get following error: 
(/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-... 
[fonts] [errors] [packages] [texlive] [font-encodings]
 

asked by abhinavkulkarni https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=12992 Score of 144

answered by mpg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1239 Score of 108

9.13.2.2 \mathbb Z  yields undefined control sequence error

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=38769

I am using WinEdt 6 for compiling my TeX documents. I am getting an error with contains the line $\mathbb{Z}$ showing that it is undefined control sequence. How should I rectify it? Should I include ... 
[math-mode] [errors] [symbols]
 

asked by Ramana Venkata https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=10154 Score of 233

9.13.2.3 Using the \tab Command

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I have seen several cases of people using the \tab command to insert a specific amount of space between objects (as opposed to the \hfill command which uses any remaining space).  However, I have ... 
[spacing]
 

asked by Mathematician https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=49199 Score of 94

answered by Mathematician https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=49199 Score of 108

9.13.2.4 How can I get bold math symbols?

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To make Latin-letter variables bold I can use e.g. \mathbf{a}, but while putting Greek letters or symbols such as \nabla inside \mathbf doesn't cause any errors or warnings, it also doesn't do ... 
[fonts] [math-mode] [symbols] [bold]
 

asked by Michael Underwood https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=32 Score of 596

answered by Mark Meckes https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=206 Score of 506

9.13.2.5 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 408

answered by Mico https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5001 Score of 553

9.13.2.6 How to vertically-center the text of the cells?

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I have a simple table as follows: 
\begin{table*} 
\centering 
\begin{tabular}{|l|c|c|c|c|p{2in}|} 
... 
... 
\end{tabular} 
\caption{The factors the camera solver depends on to ... 
[tables] [vertical-alignment]
 

asked by Rafid https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2418 Score of 184

9.13.2.7 Real number symbol (UTF-8: a^\204\235) in XeTeX

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How can I get the 'real number' sign (something like \mathbb{R} with the amssymb package in LaTeX) in XeTeX? 
[math-mode] [xetex] [symbols] [amsmath] [plain-tex]
 

asked by lvaneesbeeck https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=24686 Score of 168

answered by lvaneesbeeck https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=24686 Score of 11