6.48.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

6.48.2.1 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 96 votes

answered by Frank Mittelbach https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=10109 69 votes

6.48.2.2 Putting two images beside each other

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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 56 votes

answered by Masroor https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=14103 141 votes

6.48.2.3 Tabular: title above and caption below?

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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

6.48.2.4 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]
 

asked by JustDanyul https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=8615 349 votes

answered by Werner https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5764 303 votes

6.48.2.5 Using multicolumn in latex

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I want to create a table like this using Latex 
|               sets            | 
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ... 
[multicolumn]
 

asked by mahmood https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=36294 73 votes

answered by m0nhawk https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9790 102 votes

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

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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 221 votes

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

6.48.2.7 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=14 365 votes

answered by ShreevatsaR https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=48 196 votes