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Why not use Stack Overflow?
This is a summary of the comments, so that we can get an answer. There are a number of reasons why TeX.se exists, and StackOverflow is not the best place for asking TeX related questions.
First and ...
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Are "Is this good typography?" questions on topic?
I think there are three different kinds of questions which could be considered relating to typography. One kind is inherently subjective and opinion based and therefore off topic, while the other two ...
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Is a question regarding 'drawing packages with math support' acceptable?
I think this is in principle not an off-topic question, since it does relate to TeX and related tools. However, to avoid it being closed as a duplicate, you might want to check out the following ...
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To what extent are code-review-style questions welcome?
I'm not really a fan of such questions, as it remains really open-ended (or too broad). Answers can be as simple as "No, that's the best you can do" to 10 answers each doing it in different ...
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How to flag a question concerning a software bug
Flagging using the generic 'needs mod attention' function is fine (though we tend to be conservative about closing). Whilst we can add a limited number of custom close reasons for the site, the number ...
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Are "Is this good typography?" questions on topic?
No, since it solicits mostly opinion-based answers, which may not be fact-based.
This site is more about the code than the visuals or output. While the latter does matter, the former is something ...
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Are questions using markdown with LaTeX allowed?
Issues using a variety of software - Pandoc included - are on topic here as long as the issue relates to (La)TeX in some way. As mentioned in the TeX - LaTeX Tour page:
Ask about...
Formats like ...
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Posting Q and A on pandoc
I think that pandoc questions that use LaTeX as the intermediary or output format are definitely on topic, and there are quite a few of us here who are also pandoc users, and so these sorts of ...
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Job advertising?
I just signed up for freelancer.ca (see edit below for more details) and basically you can look for freelancers in specific areas to do your "projects", including LaTeX. From what I can see, some of ...
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Typesetting and typography related questions
We have a typography tag on this page. The questions there though should be more about how to achieve certain typographical features in TeX or about TeX-nical typography (e.g. a question about whether ...
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To what extent are code-review-style questions welcome?
Not really; Codereview.SX exists and has a {TeX} tag.
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Job advertising?
While it would be appreciated here, the proper place on stackoverflow would probably be careers.sx, although that's too expensive for only one job.
TUG has a jobboard, though.
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Are questions about TeXmacs on-topic?
There's now a proposal for a TeXmacs StackExchange site on Area51. Any support you may provide is very much appreciated to get a proper home for this community!
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Is a question on setting up a CTAN mirror on-topic?
To answer your true meta question: Yes, such questions are on-topic. The fact that they revolve around operating TeX rather than using it does not disqualify them. What is not on-topic are trivial ...
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BibLaTeX Tutorial: May I show you my example *before* publishing it
I don't think here would be a good fit as meta-type questions typically ask questions about the main site. So questions here would be with regards to TeX.SE, which yours seems to not be.
If your aim ...
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Is a question regarding 'drawing packages with math support' acceptable?
Is this not TikZ or PSTricks? Or are you referring to some GUI tool?
I think what you'll need to do is add more detail to what you mean by "software", "integration", etc. Otherwise, if you were to ...
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