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We have two tags that try to separate the differences:
tex-core is about format-independent questions involving TeX the language, and so it can be used for LaTeX questions involving TeX primitives.
plain-tex is about the plain TeX format, and is mainly there for people who use it so that their questions don't get lost in the sea of LaTeX questions.
So if ...
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Every question has to be tagged, but it's possible for all valid tags to 'vanish'. This is most obviously true for migration but can also occur if tag cleanup removes a tag. In these cases questions will be marked 'untagged'.
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Note that you can not actually use plain tex in latex. plain is a different format defined in plain.tex which is not input into the latex format. There are of course some macros with the same name in both plain and latex and (some) of those have the same definition, but it's not really plain tex whatever you do.
So if you want to ask how to do a floating ...
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Yes, a tag would be nice. We could also migrate such questions to Code Review.sx - it already has a TeX tag.
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In the case of list environments, questions and answers about one specific type (enumerate, itemize, ...) will often be useful for other types as well. Examples are Q+A's about spacing or page breaks before or after lists, spacing between list items, indentation of item labels, ... Therefore, the tag descriptions of enumerate, itemize, and description ...
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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 a device to be used very sparingly, because it catches attention: with the current setup, tags are more prominent than question titles.
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There is a difference between cosmetics that TeX should perform and cosmetics that purely rely on the typesetters choice.
If the question is about how to turn on/off ligatures, implement auto kerning hyphenation, letterine, ornaments etc. or the specification is given and don't know how to realize in terms of TeX then it is obviously on-topic.
But if it ...
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LaTeX3 is much more than expl3.
LaTeX3 is about the LaTeX3 project, it is about the successor of LaTeX 2e, i.e. the format LaTeX3, it is about all the different concepts like coffins or the idea of xtemplate...
expl3 however is the programming layer of LaTeX3, i.e., one part of many.
I'd tag a question {expl3} (in addition to the {latex3} tag) when the ...
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Once you get the "retag questions" privilege (500 rep), you no longer need to edit a question (thereby gaining 2 points) to retag a question – simply retagging gains you no points. If you have the "edit questions and answers" privilege (2000 rep), you get no points for editing questions.
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The tagging approach taken here is quite deliberate. Whilst TeX-sx covers the TeX world generally, LaTeX is by far the dominant format in use (plain TeX and ConTeXt are much less widely used). As such, it was clear from the earliest days of the site that questions should be treated as about LaTeX unless they are explicitly not. Thus we have tags such as ...
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Questions about Excel have typically nothing to do with Word, and vice-versa; hence, I'm in favor of two separate tags ms-word and ms-excel.
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Since the vast majority of questions on the site are about LaTeX, the tag is really not very helpful. Most plain TeX questions will be tagged plain-tex but there are at present only 168 such questions, so plain TeX users are few and far between on the site. You can add plain-tex (and other tags that interest you) to your favourite tags, but it's true you can'...
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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, making them virtually indistinguishable from the text at a first sight.
I'll just say this:
Using bold for everything is like using the highlighter pen for the ...
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I've seized the initiative and created the abnt tag. I just assigned it to a question that clearly falls in the scope of the tag.
I leave to our Brazilian friends, so fond of their beloved ABNT, to retag other questions.
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Turned my comment into an answer so it can be downvoted as well.
I'd vote for option 3, that is to say a new tag els-cas. It seems to me that elsarticle and cas-... classes are sufficiently different to warrant a new tag. elsarticle is thoroughly LaTeX2e, while els-cas makes heavy use of LaTeX3's expl3 and xparse.
It might help to add cas-sc and cas-dc as ...
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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 again.
Just reverting the bold tags to normal would be easier and better, though.
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Although the article and report tags exist, it seems that whenever the books tag was incorrectly applied to a question about the book class, the tag was removed, but nobody bothered to create a separate book tag. My guess is that such a tag (like article and report) would "only" reveal what should be revealed by a MWE, namely, the class used by the ...
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Policy from 'the early days' has been
Package names are inserted as code
If pointing to a package in an answer, it should if possible be linked to CTAN:
[`some-package`](http://ctan.org/pkg/some-package)
Tags are used for tagging, which means that they are almost exclusively placed in the 'tags' part of a question and not in the main body. Sometimes tags ...
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Splitting vague tags is time-consuming, causes lots of random bumping, and is only worth it if all or nearly all of the relevant posts are sorted out and the new distinction is valuable. So, I'd be cautious.
If you are still keen, I suggest tackling just the clearest case and reporting back. That seems to be the preview case: of 78 tagged questions, 20 ...
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Looking at
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/epslatex
shows that the questions tagged epslatex are about gnuplot's epslatex output (which generates an EPS file with a tex fragment with a picture environment overlaying latex typeset text).
So I just edited the tag wiki to say that is what the tag is for....
https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/...
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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 unintentional and an update is rolling out soon. Thanks for the catch and your patience.
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There seems to be a bit of a trend to have a tag named after "major" environments or macros/fonts/symbols/etc., which I suppose makes sense if the thing is complicated or subtle, or at least prone to error. It actually seems that the concept of a "vector" as realized in TeX is such a thing: there are questions about vectors written as column vectors (...
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In my opinion the tag is absolutely necessary. I feel those questions are not meant to help the whole community to learn TeX, but only the OP. I don't have anything against that per se, but it's clearly a different objective and each potential answerer should be able to knowingly choose what they want to spend their time on.
With a specific tag, I think the ...
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Since 'float' has a technical definition in TeX which is well defined: an object whose placement is determined algorithmically by TeX itself, (subject to parameters given by the user), it's not the case that wrap should be a subtag of floats in the general sense.
The wrap tag should be used for questions involving wrapping text around other elements, ...
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I think that index should be made a synonym of indexing, and index-package should be created for the package, as barbara suggests. This is similar to the situation with citing and cite-package.
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Certainly if a tag is added qed should be the tag name rather than tombstone, but I think the existing theorems tag should be fine, although several questions asking about this do not currently have the theorem tag and could have that tag added
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As my proposal has so far gained a score of +9, I've changed/added the tag wiki excerpts for font-encodings and the new input-encodings:
{input-encodings} is about the various input code pages like latin1 or
utf-8 ({unicode}) which interprete the sequence of numbers underlying text
files and map each number to a certain glyph (character). A popular
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https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq#reputation
When you reach 500 rep, you gain the privilege to retag questions. With less than 500 rep, you would get 2 points if a suggested retag was approved.
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I think that this name change is unfortunate and should be changed again.
It is very common for (especially new) users to use latex-project for any question related to any part of the tex system, whether a problem with a specific package or with an editor or general latex syntax.
Almost invariably someone then does a tag edit to remove the tag.
On this ...
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