5.16.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

5.16.2.1 Is there any way to do a correct word count of a LaTeX document?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=534

Often assignments (or even papers) have a word count limit. That is not a big deal when using Word, but I don't know how to do that using LaTeX. My solution has been so far to compile the document and  ... 
[packages] [compiling] [word-count] [scripts]
 

asked by Vivi https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=14 337 votes

answered by ShreevatsaR https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=48 180 votes

5.16.2.2 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=35 175 votes

answered by Stefan Kottwitz https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=213 127 votes

5.16.2.3 Making the bibliography appear in the table of contents

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=8458

I need to make my (BibTeX) references section appear in the table of contents of my LaTeX document (documentclass: article), with section numbering too. 
My approach until now has been making a new  ... 
[sectioning] [table-of-contents] [bibliographies]
 

asked by Genba https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=2311 160 votes

answered by lockstep https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=510 116 votes

5.16.2.4 How to add a forced line break inside a table cell

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=2441

I have some text in a table and I want to add a forced line break. I want to insert a forced line break without having to specify the column width, i.e. something like the following: 
... 
[tables] [line-breaking]
 

asked by Denilson SA~\[DownExclamation] Maiahttps://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=375 595 votes

answered by Bernard https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=38908 309 votes

5.16.2.5 What can I use to typeset MATLAB code in my document?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=75116

This question led to a new package: 
matlab-prettifier 
Does anybody have a quick and easy way to typeset some relatively long MATLAB code in the appendix? I looked up a few methods, and the  ... 
[listings] [highlighting] [matlab]
 

asked by suzu https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=19279 92 votes

5.16.2.6 What is the LaTeX command for "em dash" (a^\200\224)?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=53413

I am trying to insert the symbol in the title of the question, which I copied from a PDF article, but it appears as space in the output file. What is the corresponding LaTeX command? 
[symbols] [punctuation]
 

asked by Tarek https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=13964 220 votes

answered by Keks Dose https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=4736 232 votes

5.16.2.7 How to include SVG diagrams in LaTeX?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=2099

I'm making all my diagrams in SVG format using Inkscape and then I export them to some other format (e.g. PDF, EPS or PNG). I wrote a short script that does this for me automatically, but I'd like to  ... 
[graphics] [svg]
 

asked by Martin Tapankov https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=711 474 votes

answered by Martin H https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=632 256 votes