Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Call to test a flexible CV package on LaTeX under final stages of development [closed]
The package is here:
https://gitlab.com/koleygr/flexible-cv
and I am tending to upload on TUG soon, but surely some testing is needed and as I have developed the most of its parts a while (some years) ...
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Why no syntax highlighting for inline code?
I understand why StackOverflow does not have syntax highlighting for inline code, as there is simply not enough code for the syntax highlighting system to guess the language being used (at least I ...
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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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Space before the question mark in the title
In Why are there two commands doing the same: \> and \:?, the title looks a bit weird:
Why are there two commands doing the same: \> and \:?
IMHO, the title would profit from adding a space to ...
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Could a default comment about MWEs be added in reviews?
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Recently I noticed a very common behavior about new users, they ask questions without providing MWEs.
As an example, this question have more than one comment about lack of MWE.
While review ...
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Run the codes in posts with a button [duplicate]
Recently I saw a post on StackOverflow in which a code snippet could be run by pressing a button.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44380104/c-drawing-scatter-plot-on-ms-charts
It was indeed really ...
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Go to page x button
I always found it irritating that on the question site you cannot jump to pages in the middle of the site. As you see in the picture you can jump to page 2-5 and 4501, but the questions in the middle ...
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Re-configuration of community bot?
The posting How to add a background image to a tabular? states quite clearly the problem, from the outset (no edits). Nevertheless, the community bot feels the necessity to comment:
Please clarify ...
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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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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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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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Off topic close reason no longer available
I noticed that a reason has been added in the Close Question dialog, in the category A community-specific reason:
This reason is for non-reproducible or trivial questions, and it suggests to add an ...
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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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Overlapping texts
I notice that increasingly when I look at an SE entry comments are overwritten by extraneous text and further that in at least one case the bottom of a question overlaps the answer. How can the ...
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Is there no way at all to typeset equations using TeX on the TeX SE at all? [duplicate]
I understand that the feature to render TeX in between Markdown/HTML using the \$ as delimiters was disabled, or the powers that be decided not to adopt it because of the meta aspect of it, that ...
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Adding the Stack Printer app button to each post
I'd like to request a button be placed with each post that allows for the printing of questions and their answers via the Stack Printer. Can this be done?
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Why can't low-reputation users see protected questions?
According to the section on privileges it seems that I should be able to see a list of protected questions, however clicking upon the link leads to this page explaining that I don't have the required ...
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Why there is no copy button for tex code area?
Why there is no copy button for TeX code area in TSE like stackoverflow code area?
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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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Show user group membership in user info box
In today's discussion session at TUG2019, Jim Hefferon asked whether it would be possible to add a badge for user group membership to the user info box.
Here is a mockup of what I have in mind, where ...
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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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Changing the site name
Today I was browsing https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/ and saw in the “Hot Meta Posts” sidebar that they are changing their site name from “Mathematica” to “Mathematica & Wolfram Language”. ...
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A clock for time travel
This morning I have seen a clock for time travel in the toolbar at the top right
and many colored stars with the font Comics Sans (under construction Big changes for Y2K). What do you mean?
Someone ...
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Why there is no showcasing tool for TeX?
I've been wondering why there is no showcasing/preview tool like JSFiddle for TeX?
Also a PDF viewer would work great.
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Is there a way to make new users aware of the use of MWEs?
I've just reviewed at least three questions by new users and all of them just pasted a code excerpt that wasn't compilable, or worse, included uses of macros that aren't in the LaTeX base.
This is of ...
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Tag "Why?": Could a tag for questions asking for the reason be useful?
I was thinking that in many cases the fix of a code to give a desired output is not the answer to the question if it asks about the reason of the failure of a provided code. Many times the OP can ...
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How can I see the reason that is selected on deleting my post?
When someone is answering a question... the community (at least some members with a minimum amount of points -I suppose-)... can "flag" our post for deletion (through the button "delete"\footnotemark[:...
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Section for MWE while asking a question [duplicate]
Recently a lot of new users do not provide a compilable MWE as part of their question because it is not mandatory.
This must be made mandatory by providing a new section for MWE as part of the ...
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Delete others' comments on my own post [closed]
If you use social media, you may know that all comments others posted on your own posts can be deleted by you if you see that it is unnecessary.
I know TeX.SE, or SE in general, is not a social media ...
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Code in title; word 'LaTeX', 'TeX'
Let's consider a brother site of our site, Math.SE.
\begin{feature-request}
\item [Monospaced code in the title]
Math.SE, of course, is specified for mathematics, so the reason why MathJax is ...
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Reputation on Comment Votes
If our question gets upvotes, we gain our reputation. People think our question is useful or good, so they 'award' us reputations.
If our answer gets upvotes, we also gain our reputation. That means ...
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Is there a "load sequence" tag?
Some (La)TeX answers indicate load sequence preferences. Is there a tag for those questions?
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Implementing a canvas in the body editor?
Sometimes when I want to ask a question it is somehow difficult to explain what I want exactly (especially whent it is a TIKZ issue).
As I am lazy to open something like paint, draw a picture, make ...
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Is it possible to accept two equally satisfying answers?
I've posted a question for a single problem, and I've got 2 equally satisfying answers giving me the same result I am looking for.
I know that I can only accept one answer. I've read the answers ...
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Suggest users to add a MWE or MWEB to their question
For many questions a Minimal Working Example (with Bibliography) can be very helpful and for some it is even detrimental to the answering of the question.
My suggestion is to point the user to MWE(B)...
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Change the background color Favorite Tags
Unlike the other sites, including that of Mathematics and Physics (see image below)
the background color of the favorite tags for TeX.SE is a very pale pink color that is barely visible.
Can I ...
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Warning before accepting name change
After editing a golf code style answer I decided to change my display name to make a stupid joke by taking a name (and an avatar) close to a famous golf pro player. So far so good, but when I decided ...
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Is it possible to give away the golden hammer "privilege"? [duplicate]
If one acquires a score of 1000 points or more on a given tag, one gets awarded the "privilege" to single-handedly close questions. This is also called golden hammer privilege. But what if someone ...
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Why tex.stackexchange cannot have a snippet to run (La)TeX? [duplicate]
I know that a lot of users asked for a way to insert support for LaTeX code (or at least equations) like math.stackexchange and other SE sites. All of them received as comment/answer that this site is ...
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Is there anyway that I can send the link of my question to someone requesting the answer in SE?
At the end of the question there is an option like
Know someone who can answer? Share a link to this question via email,
Google+, Twitter, or Facebook.
But I could not find an option to contact ...
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How to reply to two users
Suppose I wants to reply to two users in the comments. How to do that?
For example, in one of question here I wants to reply to two different users namely moewe and samcarter saying that I have ...
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Harmonize tags pdf-a and pdfx
Well, as you can see they have a different spelling, but since they derive from PDF/A and PDF/X which have structurally the same form, the tags should do as well. Thus I think one of them should be ...
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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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Request for minimum time and/or moderation attention before an Answered Question can be deleted
I am coming from this question:
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/423808/xelatex-plus-sign-undefined/423814#423814
That deleted in minutes after answered and without a specific reason.
My ...
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Questions do not have MWE
All the questions in the recent week do not have a clear description and also MWE is missing.
Can we block questions for further process where the description is not clear and MWE is missing?
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Short Link to the Duckboat
I think it would be helpful to have a shorthand link to the duckboat for use in comments, similar to the ones for meta and faq and the like.
This would encourage the linking of the article to help ...
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how to close a question as a duplicate of another question that is also unanswered?
in trying to deal with unanswered questions about amsart, i came across two that are, for all practical purposes, identical. both are unanswered, and the reasons for the lack of an answer are given ...
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Button "Next" in review actions
When I want to see what is available under review I select "Close Votes" to take a look.
Then, the only actions there are:
But I have the next problems:
I am not a native English speaker and ...
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Add button "Select All" [duplicate]
May be it is not really a big problem, but it would be a nice addition to the site features if there was a button over or after the code to select all the code. I think it is useful more in cases you ...
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Why can't we migrate off-topic questions to other StackExchange sites?
This comment by Henri Menke has reminded me a question I wanted to ask.
Every now and then, a good question appears, but which is not concerning LaTeX and friends.
We can only close it as off-topic ...
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