Some tagging questions

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In total defiance of Stack Exchange rules, here are eleven questions compressed into one: what to do about the following tags?

~~look-and-feel: What does this tag mean?~~ (removed)
foreach: used for the PGF command. Merge into loops?
external-file, write-file, auxiliary-files, filesystem-access: Should those be combined in some way?
file-lookup: What does this tag mean?
tex-history: merge into tex-general?
~~format: merge into formatting? Does anyone have a good description of these tags?~~ (renamed to format-files)
~~web: same as online?~~ (retagged so that only questions about WEB are tagged web)
source: what does it mean (we also have highlighting and syntax)?
highlighting: should it be renamed to syntax-highlighting?
preamble: do we need it, and if so how do we ensure that it is used more consistently?

+1 for {foreach} used for the PGF command. Merge into {loops}? — Martin Scharrer, Commented Feb 26, 2011 at 17:13

Stefan Kottwitz · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-26 17:40:07Z

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My opinions:

look-and-feel: meaningless, for example typography, page-design or book-design would be more appropriate.
foreach: perhaps change into for-loops. Besides PGF, there's the forloop package. Not merging into loops preserves the ability to distinguish it from \whiledo loops.
external-file, write-file, auxiliary-files, filesystem-access Yes, in some way. auxiliary-files should not be touched. Merge external-file and filesystem-access. write-file doesn't cover read access.
file-lookup is for kpsewhich and kpathsea in general.
tex-history: I would not merge into tex-general, since history doesn't mean TeX code.
format: merge into formatting? I guess formatting is pretty useless, we could get rid of it. format could mean format-files (fmt)
web: see Martins answer. I would reserve that for the WEB language, questions about online/html should be retagged.
source is pretty vague. I suggest merging source and code to source-code.
highlighting: should it be renamed into syntax-highlighting? one could ask about highlighting words in normal text, so it doesn't need to mean syntax.

edited Feb 26, 2011 at 17:40

answered Feb 26, 2011 at 17:24

Stefan KottwitzMod

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Making foreach a synonym of a newly created for-loops sounds sensible. So does format-files. formatting has evolved into a sort of catch-all tag, sorting that out is probably a bigger project (we could do that after the floats project). highlighting is currently almost exclusively used for syntax highlighting, hence the suggestion. Maybe add emphasizing (would also cover beamer's alert and similar)?
– Caramdir
Commented Feb 27, 2011 at 2:37
For the WEB language, a tag {WEB} (capitalized) would reduce misapprehension.
– lockstep
Commented Mar 1, 2011 at 17:28
@lockstep: uppercase characters are not allowed in tags.
– Stefan Kottwitz Mod
Commented Mar 1, 2011 at 17:36
Dang. Yes, it seemed too easy ...
– lockstep
Commented Mar 1, 2011 at 17:40

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Martin Scharrer · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-26 17:17:23Z

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The web tag seems to be used of WWW related posts, which should be retagged to online and also for Knuth's WEB programming language.

See also this short discussion in the tex.sx chat.

answered Feb 26, 2011 at 17:17

Martin Scharrer

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Maybe rename to web-programming or something similar, that makes it more obvious what the tag is about?
– Caramdir
Commented Feb 27, 2011 at 2:40
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I think {web-programming} (the [tag: syntax doesn't work in comments) might still be confused by users. What is with {web-language}?
– Martin Scharrer
Commented Feb 27, 2011 at 9:08
@Caramdir: I guess Martin's right: Although I liked your idea at the first sight, many people will still think of "the web" when they see {web-programming}.
– Hendrik Vogt
Commented Feb 27, 2011 at 15:18
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How about [tangled-web] for the Knuthian web?
– Charles Stewart
Commented Feb 28, 2011 at 7:28

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Matthew Leingang · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-28 05:09:32Z

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Looking at source I see six uses. Two are about the source code of TeX the program and MetaFont the program. Three are about typesetting code listings. One is about TeXShop.

We could reserve source for questions about TeX and friends source code. The three about typesetting listings should probably be tagged with code or listings instead. The one TeXShop question should probably not have a tag about source at all.

answered Feb 28, 2011 at 5:09

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Caramdir · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-13 20:12:34Z

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Could a mod please rename format to format-files, as Stefan suggested. I retagged the other questions in format to more appropriate tags.

edited Mar 13, 2011 at 20:12

answered Mar 13, 2011 at 19:36

Caramdir

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I renamed the tag.
– Stefan Kottwitz Mod
Commented Mar 13, 2011 at 20:39

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