Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Easy way to copy code block?
Wouldn't it be cool to right click anywhere in a code block and have the option "copy code block to clipboard"?
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We need Tex markup [duplicate]
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Can we turn off math-tex please?
Why doesn't maths render as maths?
... but, until we get it, I have created a GreaseMonkey script for use here.
http://userscripts.org/...
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Link to online LaTeX compiler
Today, a cooperation between LaTeX-community.org and writeLaTeX.com has been announced in TeXblog. According to it:
By a single click on a link above a code box, the reader will land in the editor ...
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How to end the "unanswered" status of really solved questions in the comments
Probably this is a duplicate of 221 unanswered questions but now there are 1408 unanswered questions! This mean that the problem far from being solved, is getting worse.
A frequent type of very old ...
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LaTeX sand-box?
Instead (or in addition) to having TeX markup eventually, we could also have a little LaTeX/TeX sand box apear on every page (possibly with a way to hide it) in similar style to LaTeXit! on mac. This ...
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automatic check for MWE
For many questions (although not all), a MWE is helpful (see, e.g., Should minimal examples be required, or just encouraged, for questions to be answered?). However, many posts don't include one (...
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Printable version of questions/answers or entire discussion
I don't know how kosher this is for online forums and whether there will be green-erds cringing, but how about adding a feature to be able to print a question/answer or even an entire discussion? Of ...
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RSS feed for New questions?
I have an RSS feed set up for "Recent Questions" from several of the stack exchange websites. Any time someone edits an old question, it gets added to the RSS feed for "Recent Questions." Is there a ...
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Automatic links to the CTAN catalogue?
Many of the answers will probably be of the form "Use package whatever to solve your problem." Wouldn't it be nice if we have some light syntax to make whatever point to the appropriate package in the ...
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Adding the "accepted" mark to a question or to a comment
Related to How to end the unanswered status of really solved questions in the comments?
There are a lot of question in the main TeX.SE like this with no real answer but with a comment that contains ...
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Do we want more migration paths?
When you're voting to close a question as off-topic for tex.sx, the question might still be on-topic for one of the other 84 Stack Exchange sites (as of April '12). If four out of five 3k users voting ...
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Proposal: can we add a tutorial+admission test for new users?
It is so frustrating to have so many first posts that miss a MWE or simply show lack of understanding of the style of a Q&A site (vs a forum).
To avoid the tedious comments and big duplication of ...
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Syntax highlighting
For syntax highlighting, StackExchange uses a general-purpose syntax highlighter (probably something like prettify?), which guesses what to highlight based on the most common languages: C-like ...
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Use dashes in page titles instead of hyphens
In every page title on tex.sx, it says
TeX - LaTeX - Stack Exchange
These horizontal lines between the words are hyphens (Unicode point U+002D "Hyphen-minus"). In proper typesetting, these should ...
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FAQ request: encourage use of [big-list] meta-tag
The About meta-tagging qn tried to help us reach a policy on meta-tags. I'm not convinced by Jeff's argument, but I'm relaxed about losing most of them, with the single exception of the [big-list] ...
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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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Why can't TeX.SE compile my TeX code?
(This might have been asked before, but I could not find it.)
A lot of questions and answers on this site have some piece of code (to be compiled with one of the standard engines) and a screenshot. ...
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Should SO's "50 questions per month" limit be enabled at tex.sx?
Initiated by xport's latest question, I've gathered some statistics about xport's questions from July 1st up to today (July 24th).
In those 24 days, xport has asked 57 questions, i.e. about 2.4 ...
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Is it okay to ask the OP to accept the answer?
Especially if the question and answer(s) are very much new, say less than 12 hours or even 24 hours, is it ok to ask OP to accept the answer, that is added by self or someone else.
See examples, here ...
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Change 'TeX - LaTeX - Stack Exchange' to 'TeX - Stack Exchange'
The About page and the title for the main site page and for meta all say 'TeX - LaTeX - Stack Exchange'. We've had some discussions, for example when we had a skills contest and about the user ...
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Is it possible for moderators to accept an answer?
There are numerous examples of questions on TeX.SX and SX sites where the OP has asked a question, some one has provided at least one complete solution but the OP has not accepted any of the answers.
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How about encouraging the users to provide MWE before asking questions?
In the lights of increase in the number of questions without MWE, I was wondering how can we encourage the users to provide MWE prior to submitting the questions. Considering that in many cases these ...
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Links are invisible on the Main site
I've noticed this for quite some time, but I suppose the time has come to do something about it. At least for me to speak about it, hoping to cause some change.
Links on TeX SE Main are invisible. ...
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Where should images go?
I recently posted an answer and wanted to include a figure I made for it. I ended up putting it on my institutional account, but I realize that this is not ideal (since the account will probably be ...
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Automatic rendering of code provided in questions/answers?
Do people here compile/render/upload images themselves?
Would it be possible to have an automatic rendering engine? (Something like the MathJax stuff they have on Math.SX, but with some real TeX ...
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Feature request: Better support for copying code from question or answers
Often I'd like to compile code from tex.stackexchange or other sites to my machine and play around a bit with it. There are so many great answers here; there is so much great code in stack overflow, ...
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Will there be TeX.SX Documentation?
The Stack Overflow team has just announced a new service called Stack Overflow Documentation. Users can post examples of code usage and other can vote and edit. I'd like to have this for TeX.SX.
In ...
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Suggested edits: Giving feedback to editor
Reviewing suggested edits, I sometimes come across 'weird' edits, minor changes or real bad editings which change answers (regardless whether they are useful or not).
Apart from
Approving
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New user greeting.
With all the talk about branding I wondered what the new user greeting on our site is. So I logged out and was greeted by:
Welcome to Q&A for expert users of TeX, LaTeX and other related ...
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Please add more off-topic close reasons
Recently I have started using Stack Overflow and one thing I noticed is that their close dialog is much more feature rich than ours. Let's see a picture of their "off-topic" reasons.
Wow! ...
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How to find my questions for which I have not accepted an answer
I am looking for a way of listing, in first-come-first fashion, the questions for which I have not chosen one of the answers.
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Can/should we get a “How to Ask” page?
Over the last few days, the list of unanswered questions has grown a fair bit. Some of the questions with no satisfactory answer are about specific IDEs, so it is somewhat expected that they don't get ...
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What is our policy for reporting bugs (for the TeX family of software) that were discovered on TeX.SE?
What's our policy on reporting bugs for TeX, LaTeX, XeTeX, ConTeXt, LuaTeX, and friends?
The OP should do it.
The answerer should do it.
The person discovering the bug should do it. He might in fact ...
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Is there a way to see how someone typeset their question in TeX.SE?
This could be quite nice for newcomers and also when wanting to respond to a question with typesetting one could see how they did it and imitate.
Of course there's the markdown guidelines, but seeing ...
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Rename {mathmode} to {math-mode}
The common spelling of math_mode seems to be with a space in between the words: There are 109 questions with math mode in their title, but only 17 with mathmode. Herbert Voß's paper Math mode spells ...
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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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There is no syntax highlighting on Meta
I just posted, in Meta, a bug report about wrong syntax highlighting on the main site. However, my example code showing the wrong behavior is not very useful because there seems to be no syntax ...
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Solved by comment -> how to flag
I'm a bit confused about this procedure.
I mean: I know that sometimes one solves the question in the comments, and the comment itself is something that need not be transformed in an answer.
I also ...
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Correct hyphen to a dash in the "About" page
The official name of this site is "TeX - LaTeX", which is written with a hyphen at most places, this is obviously incorrect. I understand that in a page <title>, this is a common practice in ...
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Link to editing help?
When asking a question, a sidebar provides an editing quick reference, and clearly points to the full manual. When answering a question, the "?" visual icon leads to the manual.
At this site (as ...
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Can we get SmartyPants?
Ok, so being a (La)TeX fan (most days) I'm also kind of a typography freak and I feel dirty when answering questions and typing boring "quotes" instead of the “educated” ones.
There is software that ...
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Get the whole of a mwe in one click [duplicate]
It would be nice (on the TeX/LaTeX site) to have next to the code samples within the posts some location or word (like "copy all") to click and then get the full code sample selected for copy.
This ...
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Why does TeX not show up in my question (at least in the preview)? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can we turn off math-tex please?
Why doesn't maths render as maths?
I seem to be having difficulty using MathJax or TeX or LaTeX or whatever it is. when I try to type ...
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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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Use LaTeX code in questions and answers (MathJax)? [duplicate]
physics.SE has this nice feature that allows you to enter LaTeX code (formulas) in questions and answers, and then renders it using MathJax. e.g. you enter $x^2$ and it turns it into something like x²....
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Request for revert of the top bar background colour
I would like to request that the background colour of the top bar gets reverted to the previous warm brownish. There are three reasons for this:
The black top bar is the most emphasized element of ...
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Could we lighten up the Google+ icon a little?
Don't get me wrong, but I'm getting slightly annoyed by the tiny Google+ icon right below the voting controls, in the er... social bar. The size is OK, but the color... well:
I swear, at first I ...
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Wouldn't it be nice if we can also bookmark the answer?
I am talking about the star in the right side of questions. It is a method to keep track of important questions. However for me, it is a list of important solutions for those problems that I probably ...
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Organize Favorites
How do you organize your favorites? My List gets longer and longer and it’s hard to find the entry I’m looking for. So it would be great to be able to sort them acording to their tags or even collect ...
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Color coding of LaTeX3 code
Is it possible for the JavaScript syntax highlighter to be extended to color code LaTeX3 code? With the current color coding scheme the code is very difficult to follow.
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