9.19.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

9.19.2.1 Column and row padding in tables

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=31672

How do you guys go about controlling column padding in tables? 
Update 
To clarify, I'm looking for a way to control both vertical and horizontal padding. So, if I had a simple table like in the ... 
[tables] [spacing] [columns]
 

asked by JustDanyul https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=8615 Score of 441

answered by Werner https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5764 Score of 350

9.19.2.2 Remove ugly borders around clickable cross-references and hyperlinks

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=823

I know that I can use hyperref to make cross-references and hyperlinks clickable.  That makes the clickable areas outlined in fluorescent green, however.  How can I make the green boxes go away? 
[hyperref] [color] [boxes] [links]
 

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answered by meep.meep https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3735 Score of 1014

9.19.2.3 Using the \tab Command

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=198432

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]
 

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answered by Mathematician https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=49199 Score of 111

9.19.2.4 Using \footnote in a figure's \caption

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Maybe this is an easy one, but I struggled with this now too long :) 
I want to have a footnote in a caption of a figure, see the example. 
\begin{figure}[!ht] 
\caption{a figure caption\footnote{... 
[floats] [footnotes] [captions]
 

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answered by Dee https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=16059 Score of 229

9.19.2.5 How to write two dot above a letter?

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the two dots above a letter represents two derivative of varible t. 
My method: 
\documentclass[UTF8]{ctexart} 
\usepackage{amsmath} 
\usepackage{amssymb} 
\usepackage{graphicx} 
\usepackage{epstopdf} 
\... 
[math-mode] [accents]
 

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answered by Cain https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=28428 Score of 189

9.19.2.6 Scale image to page width?

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I use 
\inclugraphics[scale=TRYING TO GUESS THE NUMBER FOR PAGE WIDTH]{...} 
but I find this errorsome, is there some ready flag to set the image to page width? I usually use PNG and JPG photos. 
[graphics] [scaling]
 

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

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=75166

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]
 

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