Questions tagged [answers]
This tag is for questions about answers: how to answer, whether specific answers are appropriate, and so forth.
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Tagging answers
What do you think about adding tags to answers?
E.g. for this one Songs Package lyrics printed in two columns, title and song information across the two columns I suggested switching the package used. ...
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Explanations on why my answer had been downvoted (and removed), but a similar one accepted? Things I can improve?
I saw this question a few days ago:
missing a tick label that has been named
I answered the following, and it got downvoted (3 times), then deleted:
Does this give what you want?
xtick = {-3.14, -1....
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How to get a more up-to-date answer to rise to the top?
The answers to this question about LaTeX support in OneNote have changed a lot since the question was asked, and since the currently accepted answer was chosen (accepted answer was written in 2011, ...
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Answering this 3-year-old closed question?
I recently found this question:
Parts of my text disappears!
I had the exact same problem in my document and also cannot upload a MWE.
Nonetheless, a comment to this question contained a "...
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Difference between “poor answer” and “answer does not attempt answering the question”
This question is based on this answer.
The corresponding question basically says: I want to draw this picture in tikz.
The answer basically says: Do not use tikz, but another program and then import ...
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When is a question upvoted?
It seems like questions are not upvoted sufficiently. In comparison, answers are.
Would it not be fair, to upvote questions automatically by counting the answers and comments, just to make clear, that ...
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a blinking arrow indicating a reply with more votes below
If the accepted answer to a question is very long, we need to scroll down whether the next reply has more votes or not. I would like to request SE software development team to add a blinking arrow ...
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How to animate a code created in LaTeX in an answer or a question
There are many questions where many users of TeX.SE insert not only a code and an image but also a corresponding animation without using LaTeX animation packages. My question is: what is the method to ...
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Answer deleted by moderator because "not good practice"
Today I noticed the following deleted answer: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/561476/ (only visible for >10k users because it is deleted). Screenshot:
The question was asking about how to change a ...
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Text line spacing for questions and answers
Just out of mere curiosity, but I wanted to know if the line spacing of the text has been increased because I didn't notice the difference this morning.
The image is taken from: Defining a bibstyle ...
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Link when referencing another answer
When editing this answer, I thought it would enhance readability/access when having
Since this question comes up so often, I thought I'd try to supplement
ArTourter's correct answer with a more ...
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Sorting answers in one question thread
The answers are typically sorted in each thread: accepted answer followed by answers sorted by the earned points. But my account has changed this feature a few days ago and I don't know how. Now, the ...
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Does adding an explanation in an edit make it "deviate from the intent"?
I suggested an edit to a question after it was suggested in another comment when I added some explanatory discussion.
However, the edit got rejected on the grounds of changing the intent, although I ...
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Deciding which typography answer should be accepted?
Should I accept the answer that is favored by my personal taste?
I am asking typography questions when I don't know what the right answer is (e.g. Spacing in "$d=2$-dimensional" )
So maybe ...
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Substantial overlap with post by other user(s)
This is not necessarily a TeX meta question but I do not know where to ask it. From the arXiv I am used that submissions get flagged if they have substantial or some overlap with papers by the same or ...
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Is there a fast way for a user to delete all of their content?
Let's assume that a user wishes to move away from TeX.SE and intends to delete all of the content they created up to the legally possible limit. Deleting tons of comments, unaccepted answers and ...
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How to encourage people to send bug reports instead of using SX as kind of bugtracker, or at least send a bug report additionally?
This one is only one of many examples were a user has spotted a bug or incompatibility in one of my LaTeX packages. A (more or less) dirty work-around or patch is provided as answer, and the user is ...
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Answering in comments, why is it a trend? [duplicate]
I see so many people giving perfectly valid answers in comments to the question instead of answers. Why is that so? Comments cannot be marked as accepted answers, and people coming across the same ...
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Explicitly indicate the reasons why answering a just-do-it-for-me question
I already said that answering just-do-it-for-me questions gives a wrong signal.
Moreover, it makes this site become a just-do-it-for-me(-for-free) service.
Indeed, it leads to comments like this ...
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Should we "educate" (new) users by not answering until...?
I catch myself answering questions that are not well asked (without MWE, question not clear to everybody,...), sometimes with comments that request exactly what's missing, because I think I understand ...
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Answers that contain the main idea of the accepted answer
A few days ago a new user answered How to set document font to times new roman by command. This answer basically is the same as the accepted answer, just recommending an outdated package (according to ...
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Which is your best underestimated (by other users) answer?
Sometimes it happens to receive a lot of votes for a simple answer, ten minutes' work, whereas an excellent or elaborated one earns fewer votes it deserves.
A famous example of the first kind is ...
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TeX questions on StackOverflow
Before you close this question as a duplicate: I know that the common sense in the meta answers is "TeX questions on Stackoverflow are on-topic there and we separately answer questions, even if they ...
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How to select the correct answer and award the bounty
I have asked a question and opened a bounty to get some attention. Fortunately, I received two good but wildly different answers. The differences as I see them are:
Answer 1
Seems like a more ...
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How can I know whether an answer is obsolete?
While I was looking for some information, I found a question about the exact problem I'm having. Unfortunately, the provided solution requires manually spacing row heights. And I'm a bit unsatisfied ...
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When I delete/annul my own posting/answer, how to ensure that reputation increase due to upvotes is also annulled?
I'm in an embarrassing situation:
I wrote an answer to a question. I got many upvotes and reputation for that answer. But that answer is flawed in a subtle way. Obviously those who upvoted did not ...
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How can I find stats about all the people contributed to my posts?
I started last week posting questions issues in this Q&A space. I had no idea how to use LaTeX. Now I learned a lot of thing thanks to many people helped me. I want to recognize your help in my ...
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A suggestion to improve learning curve for new users of TikZ
Regarding the use of TikZ, I am a beginner ..... One can easily judge this by looking at my points (showed next to my username). I am trying to learn these tools to make effective documents.
So far, ...
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What if a comment answers a question by a keyword/hint?
I have read "What if a comment answers a question?" and in most cases I am supposed to ask the user who commented to give an answer.
And here is the instance
"Timeline for overlapping (multi-year) ...
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Maintain motivation for new members [duplicate]
While looking through old questions I noticed the majority of questions is answered by around a dozen of people.
New questions reach a stunning short answering time, which makes it difficult for ...
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Edit to comment template?
This answer was posted recently. Werner commented. I saw this through the LQ queue, and I commented. This motivated me for this question.
That comment template:
This does not provide an answer to ...
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What if an answer is good but not completely usable?
I asked a question that got a pretty good answer. But the answer requires me to change something in my preamble where I only want to make a one-time change within a single list. (This involves the ...
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putting answers in comments [duplicate]
When someone puts their answer to a question as a comment on the question, does that mean that the question was a bad question? Does it have any particular meaning? I don't see how I could mark that ...
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Is it appropriate to edit an accepted but outdated answer to refer to another?
In TeXShop, is there a directive to select biber or BibTeX on a per-document basis?
The above answer is the 'correct' answer to the question, but the accepted answer was accepted before the feature ...
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Should I add a new answer or edit a previous one
Two solutions to the same problem have occurred to me within a few days. I tried to add the alternative solution, but the system suggested to edit my previous one. Should I add a new answer or edit a ...
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Are answers recommending non-TeX solutions welcome?
I sometimes recommend non-TeX solutions to questions here. For example, pdftk, pdfcrop, and imagemagick are tools I've recommended. My standard has been that I'll only recommend the non-TeX tool if ...
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Should I post an answer to have some kind of feedback to my code?
A few days ago, I found a question dealing with the problem I was having and ended up using the solution proposed in the accepted answer.
However, I then re-wrote the code from scratch and “solved” ...
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How to Accept an Answer in Stackexchange [duplicate]
Hi I'm new to this site and need some help with how it works. How do I accept an answer given to a question I asked.
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Mismatch in counts of Meta Sportsmanship badge
The new profile page reveals how to get the badges ;-)
Well, at least in my case, there is a mismatch for the Sportsmanship badge. (See the screenshot or on my Meta Profile.)
As of now, it says, ...
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A deleted post is it visible to other users?
When I delete a answer, I can undelete it.
But the other users, the common users, not admin, can they see it?
I have just delete a my answer because it is wrong and am wondering to whom it might ...
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Something messed with my answers backslashes and newlines
My answer is not displayed correctly. The internet archive has a correct version of the first revision, see this screenshot from archive. The difference is that now, though I didn't do any changes to ...
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What is the best method to capture latex output for questions and answers?
I have seen questions and answers posting output from latex that appear to blend in well with the site. In looking at the html/css underlying these posts, it appears that all that is required is to ...
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For how long a removed answer is shown?
I ''answered'' a question, but later in a comment i watched that it wasn't the response expected by user (it didn't answer the original question). I'm sorry, that was an error. I click in delete but ...
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A comment sort of answered my question, how do I marked it answered
So I made this question earlier
pdflatex stuck compiling, gives no error
and a commenter pointed me towards what could be wrong, I changed my document accordingly and now everything works. I want to ...
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What to do about upvoted "wrong"/off-topic answers?
I asked a question about decorations in tikz here and received two answers that have nothing to do with decorations or tikz, but sidestep the problem using pstricks.
I appreciate the effort made by ...
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Reminder for own (unanswered) question
Would it be useful to remind users to choose an answer when a question received one or several answers but the question was not marked as answered?
This would prevent questions from remaining "...
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How to add my final solution to a question that I have asked myself?
I have asked quite a few questions now on TeX.SX and got good answers for most of them. Which I would like to thank everyone how contributed to this.
However often I do adjust the answer (that I ...
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Allegedly unanswered questions
There are currently more than 3200 questions on tex.sx that have no upvoted answers. Many of these have been answered, though, often in the comments.
Is it somehow possible to mark a question as ...
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An edit has been suggestion to a post of mine. How do I accept it?
When I ask or answer a question and someone edits my post, how do I accept the edit?
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accidental post of an answer to the wrong question
I posted accidentally an answer written for How can I redefine my macro to accept a charcode instead of a character? to the other question (which was linked to in the former one) How to highlight all ...
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