Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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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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Often referenced questions
Quick links (alphabetically)
Additional (math) operators, relations and so on ❧
Beamer ❧
Bibliographies and citations ❧
Classes and class options ❧
Core concepts ❧
Cooperation with editors and non-TeX ...
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I am a serial upvoter
I am Paulo.
I am the top voter of the entire StackExchange universe. And I believe I fit the description of being a serial upvoter. It is my OCD. I like to upvote, it is one of my favourite hobbies ...
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TeX Community Polls
Welcome to the TeX.SX Community Poll thread!
This thread is used for opinion and usage polls around TeX and TeX.sx.
The poll questions are added as "answers" to this "question". Their answers have ...
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Who Wants to Win another LaTeX Book?
I am organising yet another lottery and Springer have kindly agreed to donate two copies of LaTeX and Friends (see also).
This year I decided to be the judge of the lottery. The lottery closes when ...
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Who are the package maintainers here?
Quick links:
LaTeX Packages A-M, N-Z
❧ LaTeX Classes
❧ ConTeXt Modules
❧ Generic Packages
❧ Support Scripts
❧ Biblatex Styles
A fair few users here have ...
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Who Wants to Win a LaTeX Book? [closed]
I am organising a lottery and Springer have kindly agreed to donate a copy of LaTeX and Friends.
Joseph Wright has kindly agreed to act a an independent witness/judge and he knows the winning number.
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Why do people answer in comments?
Browsing TeX.SE, I have noticed that very frequently people provide answers to a question in the question's comments.
See for example
BibTeX error "inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8: not set up ...
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The duck giveaway 2016
Friends, the contest is over! The winning number was 3, picked by R. Schumacher. Thanks everybody for joining the contest!
'ello, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, ducks and mallards, children of ...
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Who Wants to Win a LaTeX Book in 2016? [closed]
I am organising a lottery and Springer have kindly agreed to donate two copies of LaTeX and Friends.
The lottery closes when the judge (I) announces the winners. The judge's decision is final and ...
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Should high-rep users hang back a little?
This is meant to start a discussion on etiquette and sustainability.
It is very clear from looking at the answers that the first-page users are very quick to answer most questions. This of-course is ...
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What are your favourite TikZ/PGF answers?
I proposed in chat that we put together a "Best of TikZ on TeX-SX" package. There have been some really neat answers to problems developed on the site, and I think it would be nice to put them ...
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Let’s polish the Editors/IDEs question
Our question LaTeX Editors/IDEs is very popular, with close to 35k views as of Feb ’13. However, the answers vary a lot in terms of quality and the kinds of information they provide, which makes ...
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Vote early and often!
I'm a moderator from MathOverflow, and this "question" is actually unsolicited advice, based on our experience from the initial launch of MathOverflow.
We should encourage everyone to vote ...
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Relicensing code from answers
Part of the discussion about packaging some of the TikZ answers into a LaTeX package has centred on the issue of licensing the code. Contributions here are licensed under a CC license (see links at ...
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Do we want Stack Exchange to become an institutional member of the TUG?
I suggest Stack Exchange Inc. becomes an institutional member of the TeX User Group.
I'm glad that many votes alread show interest in this topic. So let's work it out!
What are the benefits for our ...
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Which questions led to the creation of a new package?
TeX.sx occasionally inspires people to be ingeniously creative and write cool packages. Let's have a list of all the CTAN packages that originated in a question on TeX.sx.
I suggest a single CW ...
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Why do (top) users on this site have such high reputations?
This is something that I've found vaguely weird about this site for some time: the reputations of top users are insanely high here. Today I got curious and went to other big sites on the network, and ...
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Community effort in fixing the double backslashes issue
First things first, the background for this meta thread is the following issue reported by Enrico Gregorio (egreg) at the beginning of the year (January 11, 2017):
Double backslashes disappear from ...
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Our Do-it-for-me and Draw-it-for-me comments don't reflect our hypocrisy. Can they be improved?
Yes, we don't like people pasting something and asking how can I do this? or if it is TikZ, PSTricks, Asymptote case how can I-draw this? without even making a template of a TeX document, let alone ...
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Cooperation of TeX Stack Exchange and TeXample.net
While thinking about promoting our site and attracting more users, I was looking for the hottest topic with highest possible impact.
Looking at the tags with the most questions currently we see that ...
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When will @egreg reach 654321
And the winner is: yo'! Congratulations!
As prize yo' selected a scout duck with neckerchief:
(it is already available in the development version of the tikzducks package and will be included in the ...
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Make TeX.SX look nice again!
A collection of user scripts to make the main site look a bit better again, after the new design has gone live on August 3, 2018.
The scripts can be used e.g. with
Tampermonkey (Chrome)
Greasemonkey (...
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TeX.SE really are nicer voters
I've heard a rumour, that people on TeX.SE are nicer and more inclinded not to down vote,
where as people on Programmers.SE are the opposite.
The first is true, where as the second is not.
Here are ...
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Many thanks to Martin Scharrer
TeX-sx left beta in 2011, and since then we have had a team of three moderators: me (Joseph Wright), Stefan Kottwitz and Martin Scharrer. All of us have worked hard to make the community work, mainly ...
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Close voting is not a sport
We strive to be a friendly and rational community here, but the question below
Reducing the huge space before the first line of the KOMA letter class
was just closed as "Too broad".
This is a ...
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Thanks to the Community
I know that the post will very likely be deleted. I try it anyway:
I just finished my (German) PHD project and I wanted to thank the community here for all the help and inspiration.
The thesis can ...
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Why is "thanks" inappropriate at the end of a question?
This question seems to indicate that it is inappropriate to say "thanks" at the end of a question, but does not provide justification. In a question I once asked, such thanks were removed and I tried ...
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Reviewers; what do you eat for breakfast?
Ahem, this is going to be a rough one, so it's gonna be a long one too ala Pascal's famous quote. First, some context; we have
How to deal with robo-reviewers?
Should we have a Grace period to avoid ...
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Usage of the lipsum package in answers
I've notices several times people have been using \usepackage{lipsum} in answers as a space filler. While this is great for demonstration purposes when the document is going to be immediately ...
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TeX Stack Exchange swag for top users
As a thank you for being awesome, if you have at least 950 reputation and are on page 1 or page 2 of …
https://tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=reputation&filter=all
… we'll be ...
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Why does TeX require such elaborate MWE:s
Compared to StackOverflow, where you basically can post code snippets and ask questions about them, this community seems to require more or less the entire document to be posted. Why so, is it the ...
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Best practise for answers which are for the community, not the OP ("tikz answer to pstricks question")
I think that we should define a best-practise for how to handle answers to questions which are ... well, not answers to the OP.
This is motivated by my own uncertainty: on the one hand, I like to ...
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Running a questionaire across the TeX user base
I'm in the process of experimenting with river detection in paragraphs and as part of the research I would like to get a questionaire filled out by TeX users (and perhaps users of other systems).
So ...
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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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Proposal: rename mathematica tag to wolfram-mathematica
The mathematica tag is for questions relating to the Mathematica software. People (typically newcomers) sometimes mistakenly add this tag to questions when they really mean math, not Mathematica. ...
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When is (and isn't) it acceptable to edit?
Update: Sort of ironically, this question has been left unedited for a while, even when there seemed to be some consensus in the answers below of the kinds of edits that are acceptable and those that ...
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Welcome page needs more welcoming
We try to welcome all new users to the site by giving them a "Welcome to TeX.sx!" link in the comments of their first question or answer. But I've seen a few recently (here's one) where users comment ...
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Mac OS changes that affect lots of answers
Those us who are Mac users may be aware that the next version of OS X will change major aspects of the the way users can interact with the underlying Unix infrastructure of the OS. In particular, ...
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How to recover from TeX.SE (or, in general, TeX-LaTeX) addiction?
TeX.SE is addictive, we have recently had evidence.
I don't think this is only due to the reputation mechanism.
For example, the little games available on FB have a similar reward mechanism: you win ...
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When should I start to give back?
So far I think tex.se is a great resource for any LaTeX issue I have. Answers given here has been of great value to me, but I started to feel a bit guilty. So far I have only been taking from the ...
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How can we, as a community, improve the LaTeX WikiBook?
The topmost answer in the very popular question What are good learning resources for a LaTeX beginner? recommends the LaTeX Wikibook. I found it helpful as well when writing my thesis, because it ...
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TeXtalk interviews
TeXtalk http://tex.blogoverflow.com/files/2012/02/textalk2.png
Introduction
As part of the celebrations of our first birthday, we decided to interview great members of our community. Since we ...
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Colorblind, links hard to see
I have red-green colorblindness. I don't really notice it, except on two occasions:
When I see an Ishihara plate.
When hyperlinks are styled using only a color that normal people have no trouble ...
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Updating an old answer when my knowledge improves, or a package is updated
One of the things I like the most about our community is that we learn from each other. I love reading and learning from everyone's answers- I have seen things done with LaTeX that I would never have ...
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The duck giveaway 2016, seasonal edition
The Duck Giveaway 2016, Seasonal Edition
Friends, the contest is over! The winning number was 50, picked by CarLaTeX. Thanks everybody for joining the contest!
'ello, ladies and gentlemen, boys ...
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I just want to be able to participate
I find it frustrating that I cannot vote anything up or comment on anything unless I ask a question. I don't know how many answers and comments have helped me from this site, none of which received ...
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Useful StackApps and other User Scripts for TeX.SX
Some people might not know it, but on https://stackapps.com/ there are several applications / user scripts available which makes certain tasks easier for moderators and other users which often post ...
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TeX volunteers needed for project on recognition of math symbols
I am currently writing my bachelors thesis about recognition of mathematical symbols. This is supposed to be followed by a masters thesis about recognition of mathematical formulas. (I already spoke ...
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A proposal to include a duck in our background image
Nowadays, TeX and friends are far beyond of just academic usage. I would like to propose the inclusion of a greyscale duck (courtesy of tikzducks) in our background image. This is the current image:
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