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Cross references, bibliographic references, and the "referencing" tag
At the moment, the tagging approach regarding "references" (in the broadest sense) seems to be as follows:
Questions about cross references (dealing with \label, \ref & friends) will consistently ...
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What is the policy on adding keyboard markup?
Is it considered good practice to add keyboard markup to posts and, if so, is it acceptable to edit posts when part of the reason or the sole reason for editing is to add such markup?
An example of ...
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self promotion of an own code
Recently have make a post on Tools for automating document compilation which won a bounty. So I was thinking to make a git repository to put my code and even more documentation. Of course I'll put the ...
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement [closed]
As we enter the second week of the public beta, we desperately need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we ...
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Deleting a question that's likely to be unimportant very soon
I asked a question about a possible bug in hyperref. Looks like this bug is likely to disappear in a few days, rendering this question pretty worthless except for the few people who installed TeX Live ...
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Merging {unicode} and {utf-8}
I know that technically unicode and utf-8 are two different things, but more often than not the terms are used interchangeably (as UTF-8 is the de-facto standard Unicode file encoding). Should we ...
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Are questions about related applications ok?
For example this question is very specific to OS, editor & viewer inverse search integration. Is this appropriate question for this site? Should this be on superuser instead?
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Where does all my rep go?
This is starting to puzzle me a bit: I've asked 2 questions which have gotten a combined 11 upvotes.
I've made 10 answers, for a total of 25 upvotes. (Some of them in CW threads, but not all)
So why ...
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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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what is the best way to announce a bug found in tex-related software?
i have just diagnosed a subtle but annoying bug in makeindex, and have notified the maintainer who says he will try to look into it over the weekend. i think it would be useful to announce the bug ...
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Are we prepared for the new reputation thresholds when we leave beta?
This topic has already been discussed over at math.stackexchange, and it might be reasonable that we discuss it here, too. The most important changes in the reputation thresholds are, in my opinion: ...
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Etiquette question: blanking spam posts
Whilst browsing a question ( Why cannot I compile `\documentclass{minimal}\document . \enddocument` ? as it happens), I noticed that there is a spam post there. It has been deleted so is not visible ...
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"do not do this" tag?
So this has come up a couple of times, should we have a "do not do this" tag? For questions like copying the .sty files to PWD or renewing \thesection to remove section number
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Multiline code block in comment
I believe there are reasons like easier readability and preserving the original formatting that would make enabling some way of creating multiline code blocks in comments preferable.
Searching ...
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Active view on migrated question is broken
If in this recently migrated question I sort the answers by "active", then I get the same sorting as for "oldest".
(Incidentally, how come that this old question with no recent answers was migrated? ...
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In what case should we downvote questions/answers?
I know that we should not downvote all bad questions/answers. So in what case should we downvote those questions/answers?
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Misalignment of badges/numbers on user-profile page
The current user-profile page shows the badges/numbers looking like this:
Here is a similar view of the top-bar:
I think the vertical alignment of the badges in the user-profile view should match ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2018 [duplicate]
It's almost February in 2018, which isn't supposed to be the proper time to cycle these, but for this year it'll be once again, so we'll be refreshing the Community Promotion Ads for this year now!
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Reminder for own (unanswered) question
Would it be useful to remind users to choose an answer when a question received one or several answers but the question was not marked as answered?
This would prevent questions from remaining "...
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Are troubleshooting questions off-topic?
Some days ago, I asked in Troubleshooting for biber for guidelines what to do/check if biber does not produce any output. The occasion to ask this question was of course that I had such a situation ...
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Usefullness of the Announcer, Booster and Publicist badges?
I was a bit surprised by the Announcer, Booster and Publicist badges.
If I understood, those badges requires you to share links to questions with the form
https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/[...
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Personal messaging on `TeX.SX`
Is there a way to send personal messages to another user on TeX.SX for some aspect of a question you don't want to be made public?
Obviously I don't have the other user's email address and he doesn't ...
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Do we need both {documentclass} and {templates}?
Browsing through page 2 of our "Tags" site, you'll find the templates tag with 72 questions and the documentclass tag with 70 questions. I can't name the difference between the two tags (classes are ...
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Discussion about TeX Community Polls
Please discuss any ideas and issues about TeX Community Polls in this thread to keep it tidy.
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The image you are requesting does not exist or is no longer available
Please kindly navigate to Can PSTricks or others draw the 4 common tangent lines of 2 “disjoint” circles without having to do extra calculations? and see what happened there.
I am not sure it is a ...
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How do I contact a moderator?
In certain circumstances it can be useful to attract the attention of one of the moderators. There are various ways of doing this, what are they? Also, not all ways are equal: some require some ...
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Sign error in Eulers formula in header on front page?
Edit:
Turns out it's (maybe) not a sign error, but the vertical line in the plus might be hidden by the parenthesis in the background. It still appears like an error!
I noticed this today, on the ...
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Policy on verbose question titles
From my understanding, editing question titles to correct the spelling or fix the grammar is acceptable, while the substance is to be left alone. However, just now I stumbled upon this question. Its ...
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Should {list-of-figures} be merged with {table-of-content}?
Should the tags table-of-contents, list-of-figures and list-of-tables be merged? After all, their implementations are pretty similar and questions and solutions applying to one of them typically apply ...
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What is happening in Chat rooms?
I just visited the chat room and it is so complicated.
Can anyone explain me what is happening there?
Why do I see so many edit buttons and enter buttons?
Why isn't this simple like other chats?
Is ...
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Unregistered users tend to post "answers" to own questions that are not answers
An unregistered user just asked a question and soon after that posted an "answer" that should have been a comment. Usually, the system asks you quite clearly if you're really sure that you want to ...
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Why so much concern over tags?
There are many meta questions related to the various tags. I don't understand why they're useful in the first place.
I see two situations: 1. the question author uses a descriptive title and so the ...
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Which expression is more common and defining for LaTeX commands - command or macro?
I've seen many questions using the word command or commands. There are also questions writing macro or macros. Regarding tagging, which should be the master and which the synonym mapped to it? Until ...
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Why do old questions suddenly reappear as recently modified?
I quite frequently see old questions reappear on the front page of TeX questions, under which it says "modified Xm ago". Here's a current example:
But when I look at the question, in this case An ...
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Where do questions about printing go?
I would like to know some basic information about printing, like types of paper, ink, their differences. Are these kind of questions appropriate for the site? If not, could you suggest another ...
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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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2011 Community Moderator Election
The 2011 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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Why I can't log in to chat room from mobile while I can in to main site?
I am using mobile to keep in touch with TeX.SX and friends there. While main site offers no problems, I can't enter the chat room. It seems if I use full site option in mobile, it works. But with a ...
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What is the preferred capitalization/spacing for the name of this site?
I found a dialog box on SE (all sites, not just this one) that capitalizes it as "TeX-LaTex Stack Exchange".
This seems odd to me, as Wikipedia uses a capital X in LaTeX. That said, I'm not ...
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Upcoming event "Answer the unanswered"
In the right column on the "questions" page there is a box "Upcoming events" with an entry "Answer the unanswered in 5 days". Where do I find more information on what this event is about? Clicking on ...
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Can a profile picture have an alpha channel?
This is really not very important, but it bugs me.
It seems impossible to get a profile picture with a transparent part. Even if I upload a picture with an alpha channel, the system seems to remove ...
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Detail in question changed after one answer already given; change question or new question?
For How do I draw a plot with a variable line width in pgfplots?, after answers and comments started coming in, I realised that I really want a continuous change in line width, and not a discrete one ...
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Not getting reputation points for suggested edits
I think the reputation system is broken...
I have edited some questions and tags (TeX main site) and I do not have received the corresponding pontuation.
Am I wrong?
EDIT: Today I have only 54 ...
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Change the color of the number of suggested edits
The 2 on the review page is hardly visible. Even though a disabled/grayed out look might be desired (because I couldn't actually review these suggested edits), this is just illegible:
(Using Safari 5....
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How to find posts associated with voting
In terms of voting, the Meta FAQ mentions:
What does voting mean
here?
Voting here works a bit differently from the main site. On Meta,
voting is often used to express agreement or ...
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What to do if two answers together answer the original question?
I have asked a question and there are there was one answer that mostly solved the original problem. In the comments to the answer, I asked how one would fix the remaining problem. It was answered but ...
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Notification for questions marked as favourites?
Is there a way to get an e-mail-notification on questions I marked as favourite but which are not my own?
Or am I using this favourite-mark-system in a wrong way?
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What is the best method to capture latex output for questions and answers?
I have seen questions and answers posting output from latex that appear to blend in well with the site. In looking at the html/css underlying these posts, it appears that all that is required is to ...
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Did the “too-localized” vote option disappear?
Isn’t it possible anymore to vote as “too-localized” or am I overlooking something ?
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What is the difference between these two kinds of close votes?
We find that we can ask a post to be closed in two ways.
Use the close link under a post.
And cast a close vote in the review panel.
What is difference between the two? How are they recorded in ...