6.54.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

6.54.2.1 How can I get bold math symbols?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?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/digest?cta=user&id=32 471 votes

answered by Mark Meckes https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=206 412 votes

6.54.2.2 Tabular: title above and caption below?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=15282

I have a table that I would like to put the Title above and a caption below. Intuitively (though I know how troublesome intuition can be in something like LaTeX), I should be able to do as below: 
\... 
[tables] [captions]
 

asked by Alec https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2457 69 votes

answered by Alan Munn https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2693 43 votes

6.54.2.3 Package natbib Error: Bibliography not compatible with author-year citations

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=54480

I have a basic tex file and a bibliography which is exported from Mendeley 
However, when I want to cite in the author-year style, I get the error: 
Package natbib Error: Bibliography not compatible ... 
[bibtex] [errors] [natbib]
 

asked by grrrbytes https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=13217 222 votes

answered by Josh Porter https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=15128 122 votes

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

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?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/digest?cta=user&id=19116 115 votes

answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4427 88 votes

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

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?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/digest?cta=user&id=137 296 votes

answered by frabjous https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=411 81 votes

6.54.2.6 How do I align an image to centre?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=53862

How do I align an image to centre? 
In a beamer presentation I have a 2-3 items on a slide followed by an image. 
The image is not wide enough to cover whole slide, so it leaves around 30% space from ... 
[beamer] [horizontal-alignment]
 

asked by epsilon8 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=12860 61 votes

6.54.2.7 Putting two images beside each other

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=148438

If I want to put two images beside each other, what should I do? I have inserted a figure. But, rather than having the next figure on a new line, I want it to be beside the already inserted figure. ... 
[graphics] [floats] [positioning]
 

asked by Simplicity https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=28871 57 votes

answered by Masroor https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=14103 143 votes