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Fixed my own problem.
If you have a large table structured basically like this:

\begin{longtable}
\caption{this is the caption}
<insert very large table here>
\label{table:name_of_table}
\end{longtable}

That just barely fits on the page, the label at the end can cause an additional line ...

I have a very large table that I'm trying to fit onto a single page. I generate the code with Gnumeric, which outputs .tex files.

After a lot of narrowing and deleting rows, etc. I finally have the table on one page, but it's generating a blank page after it. It's like there is a carriage return ...

I have an author in my .bib file with a slovene caron in his name, which is causing an error, in BibTeX I think.
Here is some code

\documentclass[11pt,notitlepage]{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\begin{document ...

This code:
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage{hhline}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|}
\hhline{==}
one & two \\
\hhline{--}
three & four \\
\hhline{==}
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

Produces a nice little table with a double line above and below. But as soon as you use the colortbl ...

Thanks. I guess I didn't realize that LaTeX was sensitive to spaces in the code. Because this doesn't work:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}

paragraph 1 text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text ...

I want to start a new paragraph, indented by 0.25in with some extra space after it, like 0.1in, roughly the equivalent of <CR>,<TAB> in a typical word processor.

If I use \\ and then \indent and \setlength{\parindent}{0.25in} I can get the newline with the correct indenting, but the spacing is the ...

This seems silly, but I'm pretty new, so at least it will be quick to fix.
When I code this:
\paragraph{} Write your text here

I get this:
. Write your text here

If I use the basic article class, this goes away, but I'm supposed to use a .cls file provided. How do I change this behavior? I'm ...