10.26.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

10.26.2.1 Column and row padding in tables
10.26.2.2 How can I get bold math symbols?
10.26.2.3 Reduce space between enumerated items
10.26.2.4 What are the available "documentclass" types and their uses?
10.26.2.5 BibTeX loses capitals when creating .bbl file
10.26.2.6 Write pseudo code in latex
10.26.2.7 Error in TeX Live a^\200\223 Font ... not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found
10.26.2.1 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]
 
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answered by Werner https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5764 Score of 366
10.26.2.2 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 633
answered by Mark Meckes https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=206 Score of 543
10.26.2.3 Reduce space between enumerated items

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=6081

Background 
All book figures are set to "here definitely" (as they must come after the text that introduces them). 
Problem 
The list types (enumerated and bullet) have too much space between them. ... 
[spacing] [floats] [lists] [vertical-alignment] [positioning]
 
asked by Dave Jarvis https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2148 Score of 213
answered by lockstep https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=510 Score of 28
10.26.2.4 What are the available "documentclass" types and their uses?

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Some of the available classes of documents in LaTeX are well known and widely used, such as the article and beamer classes, while others are not so well known, such as the standalone class. 
I found ... 
[document-classes] [big-list]
 
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answered by Stefan Kottwitz https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=213 Score of 164
10.26.2.5 BibTeX loses capitals when creating .bbl file

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Titles of articles I'm about to cite contain upper case letters and when using BibTeX it converts them to lower case ones. This happens only in the title and only the first letter conserves its case. ... 
[bibtex] [capitalization]
 
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answered by Yossi Gil https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3391 Score of 371
10.26.2.6 Write pseudo code in latex

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I am trying to write pseudo code in my paper. Here is the snippet and image like what I want.  Can some one please help me to format it. 
\begin{algorithm} 
\caption{Euclida^\200\231s algorithm}\label{euclid} 
\... 
[algorithms]
 
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answered by karlkoeller https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=27635 Score of 183
10.26.2.7 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]
 
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