6.60.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

6.60.2.1 Problem with compiling BibTex: "no \citation commands" error

https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=18045

I'm really new to BibTex, I just wonder what is going wrong when I have this kind of error when I try to compile my bibliography file. 
I found no \citation commands---while reading file masterthesis.... 
[bibliographies] [bibtex]
 

asked by zfm https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3559 79 votes

answered by Spike https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5150 29 votes

6.60.2.2 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 102 votes

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

6.60.2.3 Using the \tab Command

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I have seen several cases of people using the \tab command to insert a specific amount of space between objects (as opposed to the \hfill command which uses any remaining space).  However, I have ... 
[spacing]
 

asked by Mathematician https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=49199 65 votes

answered by Mathematician https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=49199 74 votes

6.60.2.4 Which dot character to use in which context?

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Wikipedia lists several dot characters in Unicode.  These are the ones that are ambiguous to me: 
interpunct, middle dot (A^\[CenterDot])   ·   ·   U+00B7   "midpoint (in typography)" 
... 
[symbols] [best-practices] [punctuation] [unicode] [unicode-math]
 

asked by endolith https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5773 187 votes

answered by Danie Els https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1683 124 votes

6.60.2.5 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 225 votes

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

6.60.2.6 What is the degree symbol?

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In order to have the following output involving the degree symbol 
I can try 
\documentclass{report} 
\begin{document} 
The angle is 30$^\circ$. 
\end{document} 
However, this is an awkward manner to ... 
[typography] [degrees]
 

asked by Viesturs https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=114719 82 votes

answered by Ulrike Fischer https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2388 73 votes

6.60.2.7 How to prevent LaTeX from hyphenating the entire document?

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I can't find where I can remove any kind of hyphenation and just have LaTeX just do a line break. 
edit: 
Honestly speaking I just don't like to read hyphenation anywhere and that's the only reason why ... 
[hyphenation]
 

asked by Splashy https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1713 199 votes