Linked Questions
22 questions linked to/from Often referenced questions
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Blank lines in math environments
Questions about errors which in the end are caused by blank lines in math mode pop up on a regular basis (this is the latest one). Many new users haven't the experience to disentangle TeX error ...
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Welcome to TeX.SX!
Welcome to TeX.SX, the free, community driven Questions and Answers site for users of TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, and related typesetting systems.
Here is some information to help you get started and to make ...
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13answers
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Text building blocks
There are some replies that are used quite often. For example, the first reply to many questions is a demand for a minimal example. These replies should typically include a link with additional ...
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5answers
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About RTFM etiquette
When is it correct to answer "Please, RTFM because this is what I'm doing to answer your question/comment?"
I must admit that sometimes I answer not formally correct questions (without MWE, which ...
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7answers
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Empathy for those who don't know LaTeX well
I'm a big proponent of TeX. I want it to be accessible to a broad family of people, not just those who are sufficiently technically-minded to understand its inner workings, and/or understand the ...
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9answers
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I've just been asked to write a minimal working example (MWE), what is that?
I was posting some question about this strange thing LaTeX is doing when I try to compile my thesis. Someone asked me to provide a minimal example that reproduces the problem. My thesis is now a few ...
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3answers
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Help me to find a topic for the next DuckBoat!
You know that the DuckBoats usually have two parts.
The first one "Quacking in chat" is about TeX.SE news and similar topics, till now:
the double backslash problem
origin and evolution of duck ...
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0answers
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Button to reach a list of useful links
I recently tried to help on tex.stackexchange and what stroke me was the great amount of newcomers, unfortunately lacking some useful habits such as posting a MWE.
Consequently, a lot of comments on ...
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4answers
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TeX and friends FAQ posts
There are occasions where I see a new question and know it's one that is asked frequently, yet we don't have a comprehensive question-and-answer(s) to address it. It would be good if we could ...
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1answer
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List of Perl scripts that have fixed the unescaped literal character problem
There are a number of useful Perl scripts distributed with TeX and friends. Perl deprecated the use of unescaped literal characters in regular expressions in version 5.16 and now they're no longer ...
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1answer
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a nice online abc for beginners
There are plenty of good questions and answers on TeX.SE. It's likely that each person has their favorites. Wouldn't it be nice for this site, and others among other (not all) SE to have somewhat of a ...
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1answer
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Is there now a canonical ‘how to install packages’ question?
A common user question is ‘how do I install a package on platform X?’ There are a couple of hints of this on here, such as a simple ‘adjust TEXINPUTS’ question and an apt-get install question, and ...
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Should 'how to install package X on Ubuntu' questions be consolidated?
This came up in a discussion of How to install additional LaTeX packages in Debian/Ubuntu. It seems to me that almost all users of Debian-derived OSes have two options when it comes to installing ...
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2answers
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How to search for duplicates and handle them?
Finding duplicates for a question, if they exist, is not always easy. What techniques can I use to find question duplicates? How should duplicates be handled?
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1answer
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Is there any organised way by which new LaTeX learners can benefit from previous questions?
I am a new LaTeX learner, with what I have read and heard about it, I know its going to be a great tool for researchers in time saving and more, I have also discover that TeX, stack-exchange etc. has ...