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When is it better to revisit an old answered question?
An old question may have existing answers with many votes already, so a new answer that's more up-to-date and even more recommendable would start with less votes. It may get better over time, ...
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Draft function of a stand-by question
This is a network-wide functionality that has been implemented since 2010 (with some modifications over time):
If you start asking a question, but do not successfully submit, you will see your last ...
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How often may a question be asked again?
The StackExchange model is that questions should be asked once (with duplicates closed as appropriate), but that answers can be added, edited or deleted over time. Thus for an older question where ...
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Asking a new questions opens and old question
All posts are saved before posting as a draft once every 45 seconds. You'll notice a draft saved below the post:
Only once the draft is saved, the discard draft option will be made available.
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How to tidy up/improve my question after I got the solution
Others go through the same process as you and therefore may use the same search path or approaches you did. So, if the attempts/code you present may provide value to the community or future visitors, ...
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Uploading custom cls file
It is very rare to need an entire custom class. Almost always you can use a standard class, or failing that a publicly available class, and add whatever custom code is needed to the preamble of the ...
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How does one add a LaTeX output to a question/answer?
Maybe this could be useful for someone: the convert command of ImageMagick has an option which allows you to cut out the written part of an image: -trim +repage.
If you use arara package you may use ...
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Is there any way (keyboard shortcut) to shift an enitre piece of text?
take a look at the line of icons above the answer box.
one of them is {} -- that indicates "code".
highlight the lines in your answer that you want presented as code,
then click on the {}. done!
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How does one add a LaTeX output to a question/answer?
In the particular case of a beamer question with overlays, it is often useful to attach the output in the form of an (animated) GIF.
The answer to that (brought to me courtesy of @Schrödinger'scat) ...
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