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Would these be considered duplicates?
Symbols for symmetric difference
Vertical spacing between character and \hat
Adjusting the position of \dot
Should these 3 post be considered duplicates? To me, they seem to be asking the same ...
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Why didn't the links open to a new tab/window?
Why is the links which are provided in questions and answers did not open a new tab/window. I personally feel that, this would be a great feature and did not require right click to open new tab/window ...
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How can I know who voted to close a question of mine?
How can I know the three people who voted to close a question of mine before the number of five votes is reached, and when they voted so?
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What makes an answer canonical?
If in my eyes the answers are already good, why or what should I change? What are the expectations (MWE, documentation)? How far should explanations go?
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New activity display pushes down the questions list
One thing that has happened to me now a couple of times, is that the same millisecond I am clicking on a link to a question, the "n messages with activity" display at the top of the list pushes down ...
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Procedure on refining an initial broad question. Should I replace it with multiple focused questions?
users,
I asked a question on controlling individual layers in a diagram and with a bit more knowledge and help from the answers I can see the question was too broad.
I suspect that the method you use ...
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Should the avatar of the person that edited a question be displayed?
This question is inspired by a mistake that I did here How to know the number of pages in a PDF file? (see the comments)
I generally find that the editor's avatar and name tend to distract. Should ...
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Adjusting the Size of the Uploaded Image When Posting a Question
How may one adjust the size of the displayed image when posting a question?
For example, I posted the following question yesterday:
How to Draw a Rose in Latex
If I wanted to scale down the image of ...
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How to animate a code created in LaTeX in an answer or a question
There are many questions where many users of TeX.SE insert not only a code and an image but also a corresponding animation without using LaTeX animation packages. My question is: what is the method to ...
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Test cases vs minimalism in a MWE
What is the balance between test cases and minimalism in a MWE?
I recently wrote a question with a MEW I thought was pretty good. One example, nice and clear what the issue is, but it gave me an ...
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Is it always a bad sign to have a question with views and zero interactions?
This is the first time I found myself in this situation (I remembered now it is not the first :)). My last bountied question has a compilable MWE with clear explanation and inquiries. However, I ...
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Referencing and saving Stack Exchange Questions and Answers
When I find an answer to a question I would like to be able to save the text of the question and answer(s) and also the code in text format so that I can study and modify it for my own use. Is there a ...
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Question about the search page/bar
This question may be too broad to be relevant, and it is maybe (probably ?) a duplicate.
Even though I am almost all day long on TeX.SE, I always go through google to fallback here to find relevant ...
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Explanations for continue downvotes
I adding the images of last mounth because I receive any downvotes by some user who does not tell me what's wrong with my question/answer. I wonder whether there is any reason for this. Thank you.
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“Invalid image type” without reason
I tried to add some details to my profile page, such as location and birthday.
I did not try to change my profile picture, because I've a good one.
However, after clicking the Save Profile button, ...
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How do I get a new identity
I have an identity/account but cannot comment, or post answers. How do I extricate myself? I posted a comment as an answer because I couldn't post a comment, I forget which, and was told off. I once ...
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How to put drops of math text into an ocean of normal text in a tex.stackexchange question
I've just read part of the controversy about enabling TeX math markup in
tex.stackexchange questions (mostly here )
The current practice of to put the math text into an image and then
put the image ...
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How do questions become community wiki owned
In general, how do questions and answers become community wiki owned?
Specifically:
Why do we have community owned anything?
Who decides what becomes community owned?
What type of questions are ...
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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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SE website recently doesn't work properly
Recent days I observe unpleasant behavior of SE website. At submitting of answer or comment it says "an error happens ...". Also including images make the some problems. In all cases the second try is ...
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Question listing formatting bug
I think this is a formatting bug. Can be seen for instance on
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/formatting?page=2&sort=unanswered&pagesize=50
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Are questions about PTC arbortext welcome?
I read the topics page, it does say TEX, LaTEX, etc... or "and related systems", yet I am not sure if this is where I could try for PTC arbortext answers.
Arbortext and styler are pretty common, but ...
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How do I provide a MWE with a template?
I am running into problems with spacing and figures in my master's thesis. I would like to post it here to see if someone has a solution but I can't seem to get a MWE. The problem is that the template ...
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Adjust vertical alignment of checkmark for obtained badges
This is a view of the badge description and checkmark for a specific badge (say, Mortarboard):
Here is the same badge description from the list of badges:
Could we adjust the vertical alignment of ...
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Thought question was answered, but MWE now behaves as originally
I recently posed a LaTeX question:
Adding different entities to a table of contents, part 2
I thought it was answered and now can't get the MWE to work. I don't know what happened. Should I post ...
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Designing a new Live OS which for LaTeX ONLY
Do you think it sounds rational to design a Live LINUX OS which is totally dedicated to LaTeX and includes all packages?
All Linux distros do not support TexLive easy installation so users could go ...
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How to ask further questions concerning an old question?
I asked a question (to be specific, this one) about four months ago and got a completely satisfying answer.
In the meantime I continued my project and built my own solution for the problem by ...
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Can one ask for TeX related software recommendations here?
There is a dedicated site for software recommendations here on Stack Exchange but I'm not sure people there may know much about something like CDLatex.
I'm looking for a Latex IDE for Linux which ...
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Non-question: I really like the site's layout
I just would like to say: I really really like the site's layout. It's something that always supports my senses navigating the site and does not add confusion or any sort of friction. It's a pleasant ...
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LaTeX Video Tutorials
I am a not so beginner to LaTeX.I am aware of few classes and environments.But it took a lot of time for me to adapt to LaTeX.Documentations exists but are too heavy for a beginner.For example if I ...
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How to ensure the better organisation and availability of knowledge on TeX.SX?
TEX.SX is a source of knowledge such as online encyclopedia (i.e. WP) but experts focus on (question/answer model). The issue facing online encyclopedia is how to get one source of knowledge available ...
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Why is this question closed?
This question has more than 2k views in just over 15 months. I too am experiencing the File not Found message and this question describes my problem. I notice that the person who asked this question ...
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Pros and cons of a typesetting options for questions and answers which renders the LaTeX apparence
I was wandering why when typing a question or an answer on tex.stackexchange, there wasn't an option to render something which looks like the result of the compilation of a .tex document especially ...
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Posting single line question and answer as visitor/spammer without proper signing/authentication
Why does the visitors to the TeX.SX (may be prospective TeX.SX user) have option to post Q & A as Guest and without proper signing/authentication before posting.
For example (Visitor to TeX.SX ...
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Follow and help the English Language Learners SE proposal!
There is a proposal for an English Language Learners SE site. I leave up to each of you to have their opinion on the proposal, but I think it needs more attention! Also TeX.SE could benefit if some ...
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A problem with the rss feed of TeX.SX
I wanted to use ifttt.com for tracking new questions on TeX.SX, and after giving it the URL https://tex.stackexchange.com/feeds got an error "Not a valid feed url, missing feed title". What might be ...
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Submitting a journal article as a single tex file
Background: I think that Submitting a journal article as a single tex file is potentially a great question (it already has 10 upvotes), but I think it could do with a little polishing. I don't want ...
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Drawing attention to unanswered questions
Recently I came across some questions that were actually answered by one or more users, but the OP did not accept them (like here or here). This is because the user is new and may not know the ...
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Retrieve a question from code
Background
I read a question about adjusting the indentation of a list a few hours ago. I've copied the following code found in the question.
\use{enumitem}
\setlist[itemize]{align=parleft,left=0pt.....
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How to improve question related to editing class files?
I often have the problem that I am using a template and there is just small changes I wish to make to the template, such as changing color scheme. However, opening open a .cls file and making changes ...
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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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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 Wikipedia <math> on topic?
Tex.sx has a tag for questions that is named wiki and currently has this description:
Topics linked to usage of TeX in wiki-type websites, such as Wikipedia.
Wikipedia (run by Wikimedia, running ...
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New update or a bug in the main & meta page display of a question's activity information
Today I saw this
But in the past, I used to see them in the right-hand top corner of the (already not-so-nice) layout.
Is this a permanent or a bug?
Is this added in order to make way for ads (atop ...
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Repository of LaTeX graphs, code from this site and licensing
Some colleagues and I are creating a database of LaTeX based graphs (TikZ, PgfPlots, etc) to be used in Economics (by students, academics, professionals, etc). This will be an online database, freely ...
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Linefeed in comments
In some cases I would like to have the possibility to use a linefeed in a comment, is there any way to do so? If i press enter the comment is posted immediatly.
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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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Notification sidebar style makes links jump on hover
Moving the course across the links in the sidebar makes them jump:
This is with FF 54.0.
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Requests for Reopen & Undeletion Votes
There is a similar popular question at MSE.
The purpose of this thread is to help focus the attention of the community on posts that may require exceptional handling. This includes requests for ...