5.1.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

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

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=83440

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/newsletter?cta=user&id=19116 92 votes

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=4427 73 votes

5.1.2.2 Where do I place my own .sty or .cls files, to make them available to all my .tex files?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=1137

I know how to define a package or a class, but how do I make it available (to myself) at all times? 
Say I have the package file commonstuff.sty (or myprettyclass.cls), that I want to be able to  ... 
[packages] [installing] [document-classes] [texmf]
 

asked by Tomas Aschan https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=223 471 votes

answered by Stefan Kottwitz https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=213 301 votes

5.1.2.3 How to install "vanilla" TeXLive on Debian or Ubuntu?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=1092

Debian and Ubuntu have very good texlive packaging. But I'd like to use tlmgr to have a more fine-grained control about upgrades and which packages I want to be installed. 
So how do I install  ... 
[packages] [texlive] [installing] [linux] [tlmgr]
 

asked by Dima https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=137 255 votes

answered by frabjous https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=411 74 votes

5.1.2.4 Make MS Word document look like it has been typeset in LaTeX

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=8308

A few years back, I used to use LaTeX for writing reports and such, and I really liked the look of them. 
However, nowadays I am forced to use MS Word to write my reports, but that does not hinder me  ... 
[formatting] [typography] [msword] [word-to-latex]
 

asked by Theodor https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=2788 100 votes

answered by Caramdir https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=83 57 votes

5.1.2.5 Double line spacing

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=819

I would like to typeset a draft of my document with double linespacing so that my collaborators have space to write in their edits (with a pen).  How do I do it? 
[line-spacing] [setspace]
 

asked by Vebjorn Ljosa https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=35 166 votes

answered by Stefan Kottwitz https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=213 122 votes

5.1.2.6 How can I get bold math symbols?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=595

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/newsletter?cta=user&id=32 364 votes

answered by Mark Meckes https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=206 319 votes

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

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?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} 
... 
[tables] [horizontal-alignment] [width]
 

asked by Covi https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=3970 222 votes

answered by lockstep https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=510 340 votes