6.17.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

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

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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/digest?cta=user&id=14 358 votes

answered by ShreevatsaR https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=48 193 votes

6.17.2.2 How to add indentation

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I am writing a thesis report using LaTeX and I need to add indentations because every new paragraph starts from the initial position on the left. 
How do I add indentations? 
[spacing] [indentation]
 

asked by pavani https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9327 92 votes

answered by Frank Mittelbach https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=10109 64 votes

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

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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/digest?cta=user&id=13964 260 votes

answered by Keks Dose https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4736 285 votes

6.17.2.4 How to type special/accented letters in LaTeX?

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How to type these special letters from European languages in latex? 
A~\[Currency], A~(c), and L'? 
[symbols] [languages] [characters] [accents]
 

asked by user2918 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2918 188 votes

answered by Kit https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=791 154 votes

6.17.2.5 How can I split an equation over two (or more) lines

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I am having the following equation: 
\begin{equation} 
Q(\lambda,\hat{\lambda}) = -\frac{1}{2} P(O \mid \lambda ) \sum_s \sum_m \sum_t \gamma_m^{(s)} (t) \left( n \log(2 \pi ) + \log \left| C_m^{(s)}  ... 
[math-mode] [equations] [line-breaking] [breqn]
 

asked by Peter Smit https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=459 253 votes

answered by Will Robertson https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=179 172 votes

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

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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] Maia https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=375 665 votes

answered by Bernard https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=38908 405 votes

6.17.2.7 Forcing linebreaks in \url

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This question led to a new package: 
xurl 
I wish to typeset some relatively long URLs in a piece of text, and when I use \url{..}, the resulting text does not respect the margin boundaries that  ... 
[line-breaking] [urls]
                                                                                  

                                                                                  
 

asked by Suresh https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=103 244 votes

answered by Suresh https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=103 191 votes