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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Is it appropriate to include encouraging/positive motivational remarks in the factual answer to a question?
TeX-LaTeX StackExchange is a forum where questions are addressed in a factual manner.
Suppose a responder gets the impression that the questioner is frustrated or desperate because s/he can't figure ...
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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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Is closing a question as off-topic for being answered in the comments a valid close reason on this site?
Just looking for clarification of the off-topic close rules here.
My question How to remove indentation from one section? was just closed as off-topic. The comments indicate that at least one person ...
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Where can we ask questions about GNU TeXmacs?
We are 2021...
TeX/LaTeX is often imposed on scientists and students, while there are user friendlier alternatives around such as GNU TeXmacs. It is a shame that TeXmacs does not get more attention, ...
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Canonical question on enabling shell-escape in different editors
Update
I added the question: How to enable shell-escape?. Please contribute with an answer for your own editor or toolchain. Thank you.
There are many questions where (part of) the solution is to ...
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Two [columns] meanings
I was trying to find a comprehensive question about best practices to make a multicolumn document, but it looks like columns encompasses both table columns and text columns!
Table columns
378: ...
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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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How do I get a question re-opened with providing a reason
There is a question that I have an answer to but it has been closed by several respondents as a duplicate and pointing to an answer. In my view the source duplicate is very specific whereas there are ...
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TeXdoc links no longer work
(This is somewhat late, but I haven't seen any mention of it.)
A little while ago (before February, I think), TeXdoc.net changed their URL structure. Before, the link to the TeX WEB documentation ...
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Can (or should) I post Latex examples on TeX.SE?
I am currently working on a custom table for a friend of mine and that question came up to my mind: Should I post it on TeX.SE to hopefully help other people?
I didn't find a place to post Latex ...
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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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How about Thanks?
I have got a lot of fine answers and solutions from members of this forum.
How about a sign from the authors, that I may put into my documents, as a footnote or something like that, just to appriciate ...
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Can one turn comments into a chat retroactively?
In this question the comments keep piling up. I wish I had started a chat earlier. Now it doesn't seem to be an option.
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Problems with the gold badges or for the correct computation
I have seen yesterday and today that there is a problem with my gold badges. Now I have this
and yesterday I had this:
I'm not interesting for the medals but is there someone that have the same my ...
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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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Duplicate question of...?
This question:
Putting the integration bounds below/above the integration operator
is labeled as duplicate. However it doesn't point to any other question? How is it possible? Was the question it was ...
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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Will there be an official "What's new in TeX, version 3.141592653?" question to go along with the 2021 TeX tune-up?
Back in 2014, a question was posted, asking "What's new in TeX, version 3.14159265?". I know that the upcoming version of TeX will have at least one important bug fix, and I think it would ...
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Should a tag of package-request be created?
Over the past ten years, I asked a lot of questions and received a lot beautiful customized answers.
If I found that the answer I got is very useful and should be highlighted in a package for future ...
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What are the “TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange guidelines” - closing questions
My question (Fonts appear in different sizes) gets close-votes because it "has been resolved"
I thought that this is exactly the purpose of this site.
Which guidelines did I violate to get ...
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Is this forum an appropriate place to ask questions on typographic style?
Many of you kind folks have provided invaluable information that has improved my LaTeX skills, but along the way, has also provided some inspiration to improve my typographic style. I have a few ...
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What's up with the current monthly rep point totals on TeX.SE?
I just took a look at the first page of site's users, listed by within-month rep count:
While the names seem comfortably familiar, the rep point totals for many of the users seem high -- impressively ...
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Preserve [overleaf] tag if the question concerns an error/unexpected output
I've just answer this question here which is complaining about unexpected output from a sample document. The question was originally tagged with the [overleaf] tag, which I removed, since it doesn't ...
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How to provide good looking TeX output in StackExchange?
I realise that this is not directly concerned with TeX and friends but it is about improving my answers to such questions.
I try and provide an MWE in my answers and I want to show their typeset ...
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Posting Q and A on pandoc
I see quite some pandoc / Markdown questions recently. It fits the pipeline I use, so I'd like to share / post some questions with canned answers. However, no one asks me for that.
Next, more grave ...
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Adjusting the Size of the Uploaded Image When Posting a Question
How may one adjust the size of the displayed image when posting a question?
For example, I posted the following question yesterday:
How to Draw a Rose in Latex
If I wanted to scale down the image of ...
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Users without gravatar (avatar)?
In these days I see that there are many users without a gravatar (image) like this:
Addendum:
What is the reason?
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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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Adapting the highlighting colors for the new highlight.js version
Our syntax highlighter highlight.js has received a complete ground up rewrite of the LaTeX grammar in its latest 10.3 release.
This comes with some changes to the CSS classes used by the highlighter.
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Test cases vs minimalism in a MWE
What is the balance between test cases and minimalism in a MWE?
I recently wrote a question with a MEW I thought was pretty good. One example, nice and clear what the issue is, but it gave me an ...
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How to respond to an answer that ONLY works in the MWE and not generally?
I recently asked a question about linebreaking in a bibliography and it got an answer that appeared good. However, when I tested it, it appears to only work with the specific example text I provided. ...
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Retrieve a question from code
Background
I read a question about adjusting the indentation of a list a few hours ago. I've copied the following code found in the question.
\use{enumitem}
\setlist[itemize]{align=parleft,left=0pt.....
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When is it better to revisit an old answered question?
Many times, I found my inquiries solved on the site by several answered questions.
However, I believe (without solid proof) that the packages used in the solution have undergone bug fixes, updates, ...
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What's with the new two-tone color scheme for LaTeX code?
I've noticed that a new, two-tone color scheme has gone into effect for formatted code on TeX.SE. Consider, say,
\documentclass{article}
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\begin{table}
The commands -- \documentclass and \begin --...
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No image presented when opening Stackexchange web [closed]
I'm bothered with the prob for a long time. Everytime I open a stack link, the words can be presented well, but the image never show up (the case in my screenshot). I tried refresh, log in but nothing ...
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Is it always a bad sign to have a question with views and zero interactions?
This is the first time I found myself in this situation (I remembered now it is not the first :)). My last bountied question has a compilable MWE with clear explanation and inquiries. However, I ...
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Paid LaTeX support for svmono+cleveref [closed]
Unfortunately, I expect that Cleveref fails to pick up the footnote number when using svmono 5.6 class is unlikely to get a valid answer “for free”. Which company or which individuals would be ...
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Please make a legal tag
Someone with reputation score 300+ please make a tag for questions about formatting legal documents using TeX/LaTeX. Perhaps make it legal-style? I am feeling the lack of such a tag.
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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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Why not pasting image url automatically if we choose it?
There are two options on inserting image:
Browse
paste
Why not pasting image url automatically if we choose paste option?
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How to improve question related to editing class files?
I often have the problem that I am using a template and there is just small changes I wish to make to the template, such as changing color scheme. However, opening open a .cls file and making changes ...
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What happened to Schrödinger'scat?
I was always confident that @Schrödinger'scat (user: 194703) would answer most of TikZ related questions. But today I realized that s/he has closed his/er account. What happened to Schrödinger'scat? ...
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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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Exact search is not working properly
I want to find posts that contain \tikz{ but using "\tikz{" does not help. Is this a bug? How can I do this?
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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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What are the privileges and duties of assigning a gold badge in a tag?
I just got a gold badge for the pgf-tikz tag. I know that this badge gives me the privilege of closing with my vote alone a question with this tag if I feel that it is duplicated.
This golden badge is ...
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Why must I prove to a machine that I am a human?
From time to time I am urged to click through so-called captchas in order to prove to the machine that I am a human when posting answers.
The captchas often are not precise:
E.g., some minutes ago I ...
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Promotional material in usernames
Within reason, users are free to choose their usernames freely. There are restrictions where names are potentially offensive, and 'we' have tended to avoid allowing those which might be misleading (...
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MWE with basic structure or lots of hacks showing attempted solution?
Often users are asked to show a MWE showing what has been attempted to solve the problem.
I've received a good answer to a question. But the answer alone doesn't work completely for my real code.
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To make a tag for a synonym tag: explanations
I have wanted to create for an existing timeline tag two synonyms called chronosys and chronology.
Is it correct my work to create new synonyms tags or my procedure is wrong?
What should I do so that ...
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