# Why is there no TeX on TeX exchange? Putative solution proposed [duplicate]

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Joseph Wright pointed out the following questions:

Where we see a divide in the TeX Exchange Community regarding whether or not to have TeX allowed on the site. Namely because people tend to not properly mark their source code in their questions and thus the rendering of TeX actually hinders the forum. However, a simple reminder when posting new questions may be enough to resolve that issue...

I personally am in favor of having TeX on TeX Stack Exchange. Especially having used MathJaX which is implemented on other S.E. sites like Mathematica Stack Exchange in conjunction with TeX source code (as Mathematica has a TeXForm function and its behavior may wish to be modified) without issue.

# Solutions?

So I would like to propose the following:

• As it would make sense -- in some cases -- to be able to render some things in TeX when asking questions can we not have MathJaX on the site, with a reminder when asking new questions (or under the How To Format box on the right) to make sure source code is not rendered $$...$$?

• Alternatively, could TeX Stack Exchange get an account with an online TeX editor like ShareLaTeX thereby allowing us to upload our M.W.E.s for others to see and comment solutions / problems?

Questions on StackOverflow with tags like javascript or html tend to have links to online editors such as JS.Fiddle, which is useful for showing how to get around a specific bug. While there is no official standard on S.O. for how to answer javascript questions, one would be hard pressed to find questions lacking a link to such a site.

I proposed ShareLaTeX as it:

• has various compilers like LuaLaTeX, XeLaTeX, etc
• allows for collaborators (users answering the question) and chat (thereby clearing up chatty comments)
• serve as a reference point to find code that answers new questions

## marked as duplicate by yo', Werner, Christian Hupfer, ChrisS, Martin SchröderJan 5 '17 at 1:23

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• Integration with an online service would be useful for some questions (those with a LaTeX full example where the issue is not related to a particular TeX system), but is outside of what can be altered 'locally'. (Also covers only LaTeX, not plain or ConTeXt ...) – Joseph Wright Dec 7 '16 at 10:20
• it's not that hard to generate output and post a copy in a question or answer: meta.tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5954/… – barbara beeton Dec 7 '16 at 13:14
• ShareLaTeX and Overleaf do not have the newest versions of the packages. For example ShareLaTeX now has biblatex 3.2 and Overleaf has 3.4 while the current version is 3.6. Their upgrade is periodical so it may be it is a problem if you need a recent feature. – CarLaTeX Dec 8 '16 at 7:47
• @CarLaTeX good point. If a partnership were to arise they might be savvy to update more regularly. Anyway, it was just an idea. – SumNeuron Dec 8 '16 at 8:44
• This has been proposed and discussed so many times before that no more discussion makes sense to me. Voted to close as a dupe. – yo' Dec 28 '16 at 14:41

• As the name implies MathJax is for ... Math. It is not a TeX support at all. MathJax is nothing related to TeX. It emulates the syntax of the amsmath (and a little TeX) but from its output to how it renders stuff is completely different. So when you say TeX support, you mean math rendering of TeX.