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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MWEs and their wrongly assumed place in the question
Purpose: To improve the user experience of the visitors of TeX.SX (who most likely provide the majority of the traffic), in exchange for the slight detriment of that of the questioners and answerers.
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How do I list all my own questions?
There are hundreds of pages explaining how to search your own questions, or answers to them, but nothing that I can see about just getting a list of them. Some answers suggested using the Advanced ...
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How to anonymously support the contributors?
I'm bad at (La)TeX and appreciated the help of several contributors quite a lot here. They saved my assday many times.
Kudo points (reputation) at StackExchange are fun but probably have no real ...
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TUG 2020 is going online July 24, 25 and 26th
TUG 2020 announcement
The 41st annual TeX user conference (TUG 2020) is going digital on July 24, 25, 26. Register for free!
Introduction
As we move TUG 2020 completely online, we look forward to ...
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What potential problems should be checked for in the great CommonMark switch?
tex.sx is scheduled to undergo a code conversion to CommonMark tomorrow (10 June 2020); for details, see
We're switching to CommonMark.
The last time an under-the-covers code conversion was ...
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The CommonMark diary
Friends,
The StackExchange network decided to switch to CommonMark.
The last time SE decided to make some changes, we experienced a lot of problems. Worse, any official position from the Powers That ...
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Should the mapping tag be burninated?
The mapping tag on TeX.SX has absolutely no definition or guidance. The questions about it are a grab-bag asking about everything from graphing a conformal mapping to the Mapping= feature of fontspec ...
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Official number of TeX.SE users
In these days I have asked myself one question:
how many are the total users of TeX.SE?
From the tables that I am attaching I do not see any global number.
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What to do with a question requesting specifically for a bad practice?
While checking unanswered beamer questions (which are about 280 at the moment with little activity), I found this question.
The OP requests in this question something that seems to be a very bad ...
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Is the reputation value increasing?
I feel like 1 rep today is earned harder than 10 years ago. Here is my reasoning.
At the very beginning, the simplest and more fundamental questions were asked on this site. Plus, there wasn't any &...
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tex.stackexchange preview snippet [duplicate]
What are ways to preview the output of snippets and "minimal working examples" in a question or answer posted on tex.stackexchange?
I was asked to use pastebin, which requires a login. I guess, a ...
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What is a "do it for me" question?
There is a huge number of questions using the term "do it for me" question (such as [1], [2], [3] and many more), and I would like to understand what the term means. The most precise definition I have ...
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A plea to those who answer "just do it for me" questions: please edit question titles to be usefully descriptive as well
Dear people who like to answer "just do it for me question" (especially of the TikZ sort, but possibly others.) Many such questions have titles that are fundamentally useless for searching purposes. ...
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Additional "Field of expertise" tag when posting a question
In TeXample, there is an interesting "Scientific and technical areas" part that really helps to find more efficiently kind of canonical graphs in these fields.
On TeX.SE unfortunately, such "field ...
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TeX.SE editor: insert citation
In the site Math.SE. I have seen that there is also an icon (marked with an orange square in the image below) named "insert citation".
In TeX.SE this icon doesn't exist.
Is it important to have this ...
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Typo in Markdown Help
The first sample code paragraph for Basic Links at Markdown Help seems a bit messed up, with the links within the sentence being in the wrong order, and may not very helpful for a puzzled reader ...
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RTFM, but for the log file
How about a polite way to invite to take a deeper look at the .log file?
This is meant for a contribution to be added to Text building blocks.
It is agreed that to RTFL someone in the answer is ...
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Non correspondence between the total votes and the numbering indicated in the orange rectangle [duplicate]
My simple question is this. If the number indicated below indicates the daily votes assigned to me, why do I have three votes remained? So I'll never get to 40 total votes.
Is the problem because I ...
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How to tag questions about TeXbook, but not the TeXbook source?
I'd like to know how to tag questions regarding the TeXbook contents (i.e. lessons, exercises ...).
Going by the description of texbook.tex:
Questions about texbook.tex, the source of The TeXbook.
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About asking to undelete or reopen a specific post on Meta
This question is whether or not it is useful to have meta questions that are (just) requests to reopen or undelete a post.
Some users seem to suggest that the answer is yes.
I find this a bit ...
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How to deal with downvotes and revenge downvotes?
I had a very bad experience when downvoting an answer: I left in the comment the motivation of the downvote, and after that, the user clarified a little bit the answer I removed the downvote but the ...
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Stack changed a text/quote block
What happened to the quote block on this website that used ">"? I remember it had a yellowish block. But now when I use it I see a grey bar
like this
I don't like this aesthetic very much, so I ...
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Visual search on TeX.SE
In many questions we're likely to post an image of what we're looking for. And there are often multiple visuals for the answer. Is there a way to search the questions via the thumbnails posted on the ...
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Request to undelete
Please undelete https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/534505/208429
The close comment says "This does not provide an answer to the question. To critique or request clarification from an author, leave a ...
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Dark mode in TeX Stack Exchange
I just realised that there is an option for dark mode for Stack Overflow. I was wondering if there is any chance our community could use it too.
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A follow option: how does it work?
I recently saw this addition at the bottom of posts:
What does this follow option provide? Is there any guide that mentions what I can do and don't do with it? Who has used this follow option and for ...
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An information of a pink bar: flags
I was just wondering why some flags are highlighted with a pink background? I only have two pink ones. What's the reason? Thank you very much.
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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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Community Promotion Ads — 2020 [duplicate]
2020 has come! But… oops, where did the time go? It’s already March! Belated as it is, it’s time for a refresh of Community Promotion Ads!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads ...
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If the 365-day roomba requirement 'has 1 or 0 comments' were dropped, would valuable contributions be lost?
The old question roomba requirements are:
If the question is more than 365 days old, and ...
has a score of 0 or less, or a score of 1 and a deleted owner
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Is Wikipedia <math> on topic?
Tex.sx has a tag for questions that is named wiki and currently has this description:
Topics linked to usage of TeX in wiki-type websites, such as Wikipedia.
Wikipedia (run by Wikimedia, running ...
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How can we improve the "quality" of questions so a search for information is more reliable?
Often, a question is not phrased clearly or lacks the terms that another user would use in searching for information. This is often not the "fault" of the person asking the question, who may not be ...
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Is there a way to give anonymous feedback without flagging?
Probably many of you have seen low-quality answers, for which less versed users may not immediately see that the answer is low-quality. A specific situation could be answers to TikZ questions in which ...
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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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Good practice for edit summary?
It happens that I edit my own answers.
This is because
I often write spontaneously and hereby tend to write long sentences.
Later I realize how incomprehensible my wordings are.
English is not my ...
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Timeline...for some users or for all?
Since a few minutes I saw that on the site there is the icon of the timeline to edit a question/answer. Is this available for all users?
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Placing more bounties than you have reputation
From the Reputation & Moderation page from the Help Center, we read that:
A bounty is a special reputation award given to answers. It is funded by the personal reputation of the user who offers ...
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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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Dealing with and reporting not-so-friendly users (especially when they delete the post)
Recently, I had a discussion with an unfriendly user (Direct counter for the total daily votes, in the now-deleted answer), who took their liberty to qualitatively assess my soul.
While I tried to ...
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Recent changes on the TeX.SE website
This evening I have logged in and found some news on the site TeX.SE, for example on the explanations for closure of the questions. I also saw a new screen regarding the reopening of the questions ...
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Should we reroute duplicates if a better fit emerges?
I was trying to decide between babel and polyglossia for use with LuaLaTeX, so I googled "babel vs polyglossia". The first result is the somewhat outdated question Decide between Polyglossia and Babel ...
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Why has my question been deleted?
I posted a question and received an answer. Shortly after that the entire post (question and answer) was deleted. Why is that?
Additionally, why was my reputation reduced from 433 to 399?
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Is it possible to have MathJax in a question? [duplicate]
In all other stack exchanges I use (Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, etc.) I can just do $x$ and get x printed in a math-style font. In this question it didn't work:
Is there a font where lower-case $...
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Is what I want to do right? [duplicate]
I would like to thank the following people for their expert opinions. I would also like to include a first name or a nickname if they allow it in my amateur radio test book. Allow = (1). No Allow = (0)...
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Should TeX.SE provide the citation extension?
As the citation scripts add load time to the page (as I have been informed by the support) they are only provided on pages, which explicitly request it, like on Math.SE or CS Theory.SE.
So I was ...
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Should we mark a question as duplicate if old question has no answers?
A recent question
minted-make-text-non-selectable-on-output-pdf)
seems like a duplicate of an older question
remove-selectable-text-from-source-code-pdf-output
However, neither the older question ...
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Why do some users not vote often for questions or answers?
Recently I have observed that several users vote very low. Are there, peraphs, any specific reasons that can be made public?
I think we all have 40 votes, why not use them when there are good ...
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Adding an Overleaf link as well/instead of MWE
I'm new here, and have answered a couple of questions where MWEs weren't really appropriate because the solutions involved minor tweaks to really long .bst files.
I've made do with adding the ...
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How do I include an animated preview of slides on stackexchange? [duplicate]
I found explanations of how to include still previews of compiled latex documents on stackexchange here, but my question is specifically for slides. Sometimes people include an animated preview of ...
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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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