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Double backslashes disappear from code
Update: This was almost certainly my fault.
On December 20, 2013 I moved the TeX (and meta) databases to new homes. I'm not sure how the original problem occurred, but TeX and its meta had a very odd ...
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Tags displayed in bold
The unannounced change should be reverted as soon as possible. I would even remove boldface from the current tab name, normally active, because the rule under the tab name is sufficient.
Boldface is ...
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Double backslashes disappear from code
Based on \\ corruption, I've created a new query
TeX.SX \\ corruption (based on user ID)
which I hope will help anyone to find their own posts affected by this bug!
P.S. The database is updated ...
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Tags displayed in bold
Honestly the SE sites have generally very good designs and very nice choices in regards to how things appear, but the tag change is really a punch in the eye. The tags now are as black as the text, ...
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Tags displayed in bold
I think the main site looks a little bit silly now. In the following screenshot, the things encircled in red need to be bold as well.
The content of the blue circle needs to be super-mega-bold to fit ...
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Tags displayed in bold
We tracked down the bug. The Tex community has a few special classes for text formatting and those happened to conflict with a recent mixin that was added to a global file. The change was ...
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Exact search is not working properly
Searching for symbols isn't fully supported (just like regular search engines have problems with that). What you can do, since \tikz{ is usually used inside code blocks, is to search for code:"\...
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has the Community mandate for bumping questions changed?
This is the documentation I could find on meta.stackexchange.com about the definition of "unanswered" and when the Community user bumps a question:
Jeff Atwood, July 2011: Just to be 100% clear, our ...
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Problems with highlight.js
There is (usually) no syntax highlighting inside braces
[fixed in highlight.js 10.3]
Sample:
\foo{\foo\bar \\\\\baz}
Github issue
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Problems with highlight.js
Backslashes are not highlighted as part of the control sequence
[fixed in highlight.js 10.3]
Sample:
\foo\bar \\\\\baz
Github issue
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Why does the list of Featured questions now appear to include questions which do not currently have available bounties?
Thanks; there was a bug on the "tag engine" (the backend system that deals with this stuff) that failed to update the "count" of an index when that index was being reduced to zero (it is fine when ...
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Placing more bounties than you have reputation
The person you are giving as an example has more than 200 reputation on others SE sites, so she or he had a +100 association bonus when coming to TEX S.E. If you add his 17*10 reputations gained for Q&...
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Why are the eminent contributors in such a hurry to close questions?
The network model is that closing has a higher barrier than reopening: it takes more votes to close a question than it does to reopen one, and any edits to a closed question put it in the reopen ...
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Problems with highlight.js
@ ("at") isn't recognized as a valid character in a command name
[fixed in highlight.js 10.3]
Many hundreds (thousands?) of LaTeX2 commands employ the @ character in their names -- usually ...
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Bug on the review web page?
This has been updated to something that clearly reflects the possibilities available to the reviewer; an updated mouse icon as well:
Yes, please change this. The following highlights some of the ...
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Problems with highlight.js
Incorrect identification of scope of a macro definition
[fixed in highlight.js 10.3 (no such identification takes place)]
Consider the following example
\newcommand\sorted[1]{\directlua{sorted(\...
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Winter double hats for my gr(avatar) in TeX.SE and others communities
These types of bug are not specific to TeX.SX, so you should report at the main https://meta.stackexchange.com, as bug reports here are much (much) less likely to be seen by one of the devs. That ...
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Almost same code - syntax-highlighting produces different coloring - why?
Author of the highlight.js grammar for LaTeX here. Phelype Oleinik identified the issue correctly in his comment: The grammar doesn't know about the possible optional argument of \lstinline.
A bit of ...
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has the Community mandate for bumping questions changed?
I think it is the same definition of "unanswered" as the unanswered tab in the main question list
https://tex.stackexchange.com/unanswered
this has always included postings that have 0-vote answers.
...
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Tags are getting replaced after using them
This is not a bug, but a feature. As you mention, listoffigures and listoftables are both synonyms of table-of-contents, and each synonym is replaced by their target when posting. That explains the ...
WernerMod
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Problems with highlight.js
Very difficult to distinguish comments from ordinary text.
Consider
Hello World. % A comment.
The shade of gray that's used to highlight what's a comment is quite dark, making it anything but ...
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Apparent bug when hovering over pagination items of the /users page on the main site
Thanks for reporting. I've just pushed fix to repo and it should be live with next build.
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Something messed with my answers backslashes and newlines
The linked question has now been fixed (along with ~11,000 similarly corrupted postings)
see
Community effort in fixing the double backslashes issue
For a summary of how this got fixed in the end.
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Tags displayed in bold
There's a difference in the colour of the tags. Here's a screen grab from the "legend" on the tags page:
{required-tag} has RGB = (68,68,68)
{tag} has RGB = (85,85,85)
However, this is too close to ...
WernerMod
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Double backslashes disappear from code
This and the linked question
‘double backslash + newline’ collapses to ‘single backslash’ when I hit ‘edit’
Are two manifestations of the same issue, see
Community effort in fixing the double ...
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In 'choose which badge to track' things spill over the bottom of the pop up window
Thanks for reporting this issue. The problem arose because font the filter tabs use have a wider letter-spacing. Combine that with having the selected filter in bold, and that pushed the input field ...
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Problems with highlight.js
LaTeX3-semantics for valid macro names aren't recognized.
[fixed in highlight.js 10.3]
With LaTeX3, the characters _ (underscore) and : (colon) may be (in fact, must be) used in various macro names. ...
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Problem writing the sequence \@ in inline <code>...</code>-blocks
The markdown backtick syntax does not only the formatting like the HTML <code> block, but it also escapes special characters, so a \ or a < or > have no special meaning. Inside a <code&...
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