Questions tagged [support]
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Made new tag, but misspelled it
On this question I made I tried to make a new tag istgame, but I misspelled as istgames. istgame is the actual name of the package for LaTeX. Now I cannot remove the old tag or even make the correct ...
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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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Edit approved by mistake, what to do next?
I recently approved an edit (within the Suggested Edits review queue) by mistake. How can I retract/revert the vote?
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How to deal with an accidental downvote?
I accidentally downvoted an answer that I really meant to upvote, and didn't realize it until it was too late. (The answer not only gives the desired result, but includes a good explanation, so a ...
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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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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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Unknown users within the Suggested Edits review queue
On several occasions I have found that in the Suggested Edits review queue there are new (low-reputation) users who almost always suggest insignificant or irrelevant changes to questions or answers. ...
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Tags are getting replaced after using them
I just asked a question which was partly about the list of figures. I typed listof into the tag-input and both listoffigures and listoftables appeared as suggestions. I selected both of them. However, ...
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"header" tag synonym of "header-footer"
I think the header tag is useless since there is header-footer.
It should be removed or rendered a synonym of header-footer.
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What are the new displays associated with post notices?
I noticed that the "[on hold]" reference has been deleted from questions that are closed as being unclear. Now only the word "[closed]" is written.
Are there other types of options with the new names ...
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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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Direct counter for the total daily votes
Is there a direct counter where I can see the total daily votes (40 votes) without the need to subtract from the last vote given yesterday, for example?
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How to disable the announcement banner?
Lately when visiting sites on the Stack Exchange network, I have seen this announcement banner popping up, right underneath the top bar. Here is a screenshot of today's announcement banner:
Now I ...
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My question is a duplicate of a closed question without an answer. What now?
I wanted to auto-flag my well-received question which is a duplicate of a closed question but, unfortunately, the closed question doesn't have an answer.
How can I deal with this issue?
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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 $...
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How to mark a question as duplicate of another one that doesn't already have an answer?
It happened to me that I wanted to close a question as duplicate of another, but the site refused to do that, because the other question didn't have an upvoted answer. To my surprise there is an (at ...
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Can I add your names to my book?
I would like to thank the following people for their expert opinions. I would also like to include a name-surname or a nickname if they allow it in my amateur radio test book. If you forget names you ...
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Deciding which typography answer should be accepted?
Should I accept the answer that is favored by my personal taste?
I am asking typography questions when I don't know what the right answer is (e.g. Spacing in "$d=2$-dimensional" )
So maybe ...
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When is awarding bounties considered a misuse of the system?
This question is in response to marmot's leaving of the site as discussed in the comments of this post. Comments are disabled there, so I ask this as a separate question.
In the comments Stefan ...
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What is the meaning of the dots within the review queue drop-down?
Why is the grey circle of the closing request in my account very frequent in REVIEW QUEUES compared to other items? Is there a specific reason or is it something random?
EDIT by comments:
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Are duplicate questions with no answers deleted?
When a question has (at least) an answer, it remains always visible, even if it is closed.
On the contrary, closed questions with no answers, as far as I know, after some time are no more visible.
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Problem of failure to report a positive score
I wanted to understand if it's my problem only that when I get a positive score on the achievement icon (cup) you do not see the small green symbol that indicates the reputation. It's been happening ...
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Dealing with just-do-it-for-me questions
We can not reject that the number of just-do-it-for-me questions has been increasing over time. The chance of seeing a just-do-it-for-me tikz-pgf tagged questions is higher than before. We have been ...
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How to search for a link?
Yesterday I got the "Announcer" badge for having shared this link:
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/367140/insert-figures-for-a-subsection-and-start-another-subsection-after-image.
How can I ...
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Corrected procedure to contact a user who does not write in chat [duplicate]
Is there a way to contact or ping a TeX.SE user who does not use the chat to send a private message, or comment?
What is the correct procedure?
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Why is this answer downvoted? [closed]
I am talking about this answer. It doesn't work with XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX, because it uses a package which is written by the PDFTeX author and is specifically for LaTeX and PDFLaTeX.
By the time I ...
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Are the upvotes from when we don't have enough reputation to upvote actually lost?
I had made quite a large number of upvotes before recently gaining the minimum 15 reputation points required to upvote, but now I can't see my past upvotes anywhere. This is very annoying because I ...
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strikethrough text on Stack Exchange
How do I strike through text (i.e. cross out, or put a line through it) within the Stack Exchange environment?
NB: There are many questions about how to strikeout using different packages, but this ...
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Why does my name appear in the list of duplicate voters when I didn't vote for that?
Today there had been a close voting for Latex users make more mistakes which finally lead to the question being closed as a duplicate. After a more careful re-examination of the close proposal, the ...
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Is there a fast way for a user to delete all of their content?
Let's assume that a user wishes to move away from TeX.SE and intends to delete all of the content they created up to the legally possible limit. Deleting tons of comments, unaccepted answers and ...
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Is it possible to send a private message directly to the moderators?
Is it possible to complete a form on TeX.SE that can be sent directly (and privately) to moderators? If so, where can I do that?
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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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How to get a question reopened?
A specific question has been closed because of previous answers to the question. I disagreed and voted to re-open because the question was specific and there was a specific answer whereas the quoted ...
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Bounty Community Ad Error
I just saw a strange error in one of the Community Promotion Ads – the "active bounty" ad (bounty.png). Currently it looks like this
So, there are 1 active bounty which worth 0 reputation in ...
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More specific reasons for rejecting edits
I am quite new to TEX.SE, and I'm doing my best to reply to the posts I can and help out. Recently I noticed some edits being rejected, some of which I may understand, but then there's others which I ...
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Question on hold to closed: exist a time?
I wanted to know the following: since I had the opportunity to close, open, etc... questions I happened to see the words [on hold] and [closed] (for old answers).
When does a question that is ...
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How to deal with people/answers who/which are rude and showoff skills
I am a beginner in TikZ and using the PGF manual to learn the same.
This answer by an TikZ expert is prety rude and disappointing (especially observing the expertise the person has with the points) ...
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Red dot in review dropdown menu
From time to time, entries in the review dropdown menu are marked with a red dot and bold font for me instead of the usual gray dot:
Even after doing the reviews and reloading the page this highlight ...
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Should we make the actions of "user" Community more advanced?
I have seen many questions bumped to the homepage by Community ♦. Many of the bumpings are very good: they tell us of unsolved questions which we can't find out in the set of more than 11k unanswered ...
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Edit the comment(s) of an OP
I ask to the more experts of TeX.SE if there is the possibility of editing the comments of users, without having to write or observe some errors of typography or code with another comment that could ...
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Maximum daily vote: 41 today and 39 yesterday?
Yesterday somehow I can only vote 39 times, and today it has just told me that I have voted 41 times so I'm not allowed to vote anymore until tomorrow:
You can see that by a simple subtraction: ...
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Draft function of a stand-by question
Does there exist a possibility on the site to save a draft of a question I am writing up, such that it will remain even if I leave the site but come back to it later?
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Community wiki: simple and exhaustive explanation
In relation to a question already asked What does "Community Wiki" mean?, what exactly does it mean? I, for example, have not understood why this option exists.
Am I already included in ...
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Breaking the language barrier How to provide guidance for mwe in another language
I was dismayed nay surprised to find that I cannot web translate a page from this site due to its underlying structure.
My intent was to point a shared link to a translator for the MWE guidance but ...
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Responding to several commenters
On occasions when there are several commentators on a question or answer it can be useful to give a particular response to more than one of these, but SE only allows a response to be directed to a ...
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How to print question and answer [duplicate]
I asked a question and got several comments and answers which I wanted to print as hard copy (the paperless office is an enduring con). My browser is Firefox and when I pushed the Print button it ...
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Multi-line texts overlaps in comment window
Today I was typing a comment to reply a user. However, when I was typing my comment, I saw that -- with (might be due to) the new-interface -- overlapping texts which makes it hard to read (all of a ...
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Has the size of the text in TeX.SE decreased?
For about a week I have noticed some small worsening on the visualization of the site TeX.SE.
As you can see from the rectangles that I highlighted with the color orange, the text has a smaller size ...
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Captcha it is often only for my account?
I wanted to understand if Captcha, computer security codes to distinguish between humans and bots, often happen to me in this period when I have to add an answer on the site TeX.SE.
In the last week ...
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