5.28.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

5.28.2.1 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=14 345 votes

answered by ShreevatsaR https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=48 184 votes

5.28.2.2 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]
 

asked by hhh https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=2956 189 votes

answered by Werner https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=5764 193 votes

5.28.2.3 Dictionary for TeXstudio: 'No dictionary Available'

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=87650

I have trouble spell checking my document in TeXstudio. When I press spellcheck, I get the error No dictionary Available. Am I supposed to install a dictionary separately? How? Any suggestion? 
[texstudio] [spelling] [dictionaries]
 

asked by N Nik https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=21429 79 votes

answered by Peter Jansson https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=19384 110 votes

5.28.2.4 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 162 votes

answered by lockstep https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=510 119 votes

5.28.2.5 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=137 269 votes

answered by frabjous https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=411 75 votes

5.28.2.6 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 231 votes

answered by Keks Dose https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=4736 243 votes

5.28.2.7 How to write 'A~\[Currency]' and other umlauts and accented letters in bibliography?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=question&id=57743

How to write in bibliography (package natbib) letter "a" with two dots above? Specially, I mean the word BirkhA~\[Currency]user. 
Is there a general rule or way how to write such umlauts or other accented letters  ... 
[bibtex] [accents] [characters]
 

asked by Laura https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=14475 321 votes

answered by Mico https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/newsletter?cta=user&id=5001 434 votes