Questions tagged [tagging]
{tagging} is about choosing, using and merging tags and about tag synonyms.
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What would be more generic tags about latex-to-WYSIWYG produced document (differentiating "report-like" from "presentation-like" document)?
Yesterday I saw the {latex-to-word} tag for the first time and decide to add this tag wiki (because there was none):
{latex-to-word} is for questions about conversion from TEX files to DOCX files (...
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Tag for "error writing": produce package errors and warnings
Is there a tag for questions that concerns producing errors? I am thinking of \PackageError{package-name}{error-text}{help-text}, \ClassWarning{class-name}{warning-text} and other similar ways of ...
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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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Should [springer] and [springernature] be synonyms of [sv-classes]?
We currently have the tags springer, springernature, sv-classes. The last one is the more widely used tag, with over 130 questions currently. The other two have only around 10 questions each.
Should ...
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Is it appropriate to add a tag that applies to the accepted answer rather than the question?
In the question posted here the OP uses suitable tags for the question, namely tikz-pgf, tikz-arrows, graphs.
The accepted answer (mine) uses tikz-cd. Is it appropriate to add the tikz-cd tag to the ...
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Question with MathJaX tag
In different occasions when I see a question tagged MathJaX I think many times if I should answer it or not. Generally on the TeX.SE. site the questions marked with this tag are off-topic.
Which are ...
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Is it about time to add 'texlive-2021' tag?
Is it about time to add texlive-2021 tag? There is already one question concerning the newest distribution.
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Watched Tags: no coloring questions
In the panel on the right I have highlighted a few tags that are my favorites. This generated a light pastel color that let me know that the question was among my favorites and referred to a tag in ...
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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
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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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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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Deleting the `f` tag
The f tag was creted today, along with this question. My guess is that it was created by mistake. It should be deleted.
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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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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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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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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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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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Request to rename [mac] → [macos], with synonym of [osx]
The current name of Apple's desktop operating system is macOS. On this site, the tag mac is used to refer to that.
But other Stack Exchange sites use the tag macos, including:
Ask Different (Apple)
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The {elsarticle} tag and Elsevier's new classes
Since the dawn of time Elsevier recommended the elsarticle class for authors. Recently they started promoting the els-cas-templates bundle \rant{I have no idea why; elsarticle worked just fine} and ...
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Should we keep [listings], [lstlisting] or both?
On the main site, there are two tags about code-formatting inside a LaTeX documents which all refer to listings package: listings and lstlisting.
listings currently has 40 watchers and 2.6k questions,...
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package tag marginnote vs. command tag marginpar vs. feature of setting margin-notes
The marginnote tag is mentioned for questions about the package marginnote:
{marginnote} is about typesetting non-floating notes in margins using the marginnote package.
However, AFAIK there is no ...
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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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Merge {hyperlink} and {links}
I suggest to merge the tags hyperlink andlinks. They mean the same here.
The Oxford dictionary reports:
1.5 short for hyperlink
Update:
There is also a similar tag cross-referencing. Should we ...
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How do I get reputation?
Why is there no reputation tag?
I tried to enter a new tag, but only users with a high reputation as 300 are able to generate a new one.
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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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Suggestion: tombstone/qed/halmos/end-of-environment... tag
Every once in a while I discover myself in the need of improving the placement of the tombstone symbol such as ∎ or □ at the end of various environments. (The latest example is QED for cases and ...
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Creating duplicates for easier navigation, and possibility for a duplicate tag
I was looking for an answer to my question: Plot a function between two values But searching for this didn't come up with anything, however, when I clicked 'Ask Question' and typed the title the ...
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What is the point of the ducks tag in non meta tex
As far as I can tell there's only ever been one post utilizing the ducks tag without the tikzducks tag. might they not just as well be merged? or would it be acceptable for me to start asking about ...
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Ambiguous {curve} tag
In the descripton of the {curve}-tag it says:
Curve is a Latex class for typesetting resumes
But when I look at the questions with this tag I just discover 4 of 34 which correspond to this ...
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Why do we have a minion and minionpro tag?
On the main site there are two tags: minion and minionpro. Both tags seem to cover identical material. Should they be synonyms or did I miss some details?
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Organizing the tags {folders}, {directory} and {paths}
I was adding some wiki information to the tag texmf, and found to my surprise that the wiki information concerning the tags folders and directory are empty, too, and that the information for the tag ...
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Make {parenthesis} a synonym of {parentheses}
Stats on the two tags (as of time of writing):
parenthesis: 33 questions total, 2 unanswered, no tag wiki written
parentheses: 30 questions total, 3 unanswered, well-written tag wiki
I came across ...
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What for do we use the `terminal-output` tag?
I've just stumbled around on TeX.SX and found some questions tagged with terminal-output. This tag has no description. Currently it is used for some questions just because they include error messages ...
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Make [capacity] a synonym of [memory]
Currently capacity has nine questions and memory has 86. Both have no wiki.
I suggest to make capacity a synonym of memory (they cover the same topic, but we should keep the lemma).
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A tag for Brazilian TeXers (ABNT)
So, I am Brazilian and I've seen a few questions in TeX.SX regarding the two Brazilian Standards (ABNT - Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas, in English Brazilian Association for Technical ...
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Merge [mac] and [osx], making [mac] a synonym of [osx]
We have the mac tag without any wiki and 127 questions and the osx tag with a wiki and 367 questions (and the synonym apple). IMHO we don't need both tags (I don't see anybody discussing e.g. problems ...
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Fill the empty tag excerpts
[This post is basically a copy of a similar post at meta.sf.]
Tag excerpts are very useful. They provide a brief “elevator pitch” for a tag, explaining the meaning for those unfamiliar with a series. ...
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Why is there an {untagged} tag?
I just came across a question which didn't have any tags apart from untagged. I was a bit baffled by this and clicked the tag to find that there about ten questions with this tag (and no others).
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highlighting tag
The current highlighting tag has 399 questions.
Its current short description is:
{highlighting} is about highlighting document elements. Use this tag in addition to other tags specifying what ...
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Are extra sub-tags for biblatex needed?
biblatex is the modern tool for bibliography creation you
really might want to use when writing your thesis. You can quite
easily change the appearance of your bibliography; you can change
the ...
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Proposal: rename mathematica tag to wolfram-mathematica
The mathematica tag is for questions relating to the Mathematica software. People (typically newcomers) sometimes mistakenly add this tag to questions when they really mean math, not Mathematica. ...
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What makes a question plain tex versus latex? Does it really matter?
I have, after learning some LaTeX, in trying to understand more about what I am doing, started to learn some plain TeX.
This has naturally led to me using some plain TeX control sequences in the ...
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created new tag "makeindex"
After it became clear that a recent question of mine was connected to issues with {makeindex} I tagged it with that tag name. Only after that I realized that I had thereby just created that tag. ...
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Tagging the index package as opposed to indexing in general
Should there be a tag for the index package? Being a rather generic term, it's hard to search for.
There's a tag indexing which covers generic index-related issues. This isn't necessarily appropriate ...
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The acronyms and abbreviations tags
At the risk of sounding overly pedantic and drawing attention to my own failings…
“Acronyms” are defined as:
words formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as they are spelled,...
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Tags displayed in bold
Personally, I don't like them. But maybe this is beyond the point.
Were we consulted about this?
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TeX and derivatives tags
In TeX.SX the tags XeTeX and XeLaTeX are the same, but there is a big diference between this two topics, so when we look for something specific we get also results of little help. The same case ...
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Tags for resume and cv
Wikipedia states the following:
A résumé [...] is a document used by persons to present their backgrounds and skills. Résumés can be used for a variety of reasons, but most often they are used to ...
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What is the "authorindex" tag?
Some questions under this tag refer to bibliographies, others to indexes -- perhaps it could be an alias to indexing (or be burninated altogether)?
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