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Better vertical space between paragraphs and centered tabular or figure

When I need to place a tabular or figure inside a paragraph (usually in exams or class notes) I use {\par\centering <tabular>/<figure>\par} because center environment uses too much ...
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How to format a set of paragraphs with captions to the left of the first line

I am trying to write a document with a list of paragraphs that have an introductory caption displayed to the left of the first line of each paragraph, such that the captions appear as a left column ...
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How do I stop tables from messing with alignment?

I'm new to TeX and I'm having a hard time understanding how paragraphs, alignment, indentation, and all that works. Some text here. \begin{tabular}{ l l } a & b \\ c & d \\ \end{tabular} ...
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1answer
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Is it possible to have multiple paragraphs inside a multicolumn using xcolor or a replacement?

I am getting information written by users in many lines, paragraphs, and I have to put those inside a table, I would like to know if it is possible to instruct LaTeX to accept paragraphs inside a ...
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2answers
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How do you make a paragraph indent within a table?

I can manually try and indent, but it only works on the first 'paragraph' within the cell, and the \hspace won't even work with the second paragraph. Is there an easier way? \ctable[ cap= A short ...
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1answer
545 views

Start new paragraph inside a table cell

Look out for the \par below (on the row starting with "MSA" and notice it does not achieve the desired new paragraph. How to achieve the desired effect? Thanks. \documentclass{article} ...
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2answers
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Indent all but first lines of paragraph.

Inside of a table column with a width determined by a p{5in} tag, I want all but the first line of text to be indented. Is there any way to achieve this? Doing it by hand would make later edits ...