Timeline for LaTeX on Stack Overflow? [closed]
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| Feb 14, 2023 at 8:58 | comment | added | zeit | @Dominique FYI, it's a built-in feature of Windows input, see this support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/… | |
| Feb 14, 2023 at 8:46 | comment | added | Dominique | @zeit: sorry: when I press "Win" and "." (together or separate, I don't see any panel. Do you know the name of the app, controlling that panel? | |
| Feb 14, 2023 at 8:33 | comment | added | zeit |
@Dominique I am using Windows OS, where you press win+. a panel of special characters will be invoked. Choose the "symbol" coloumn and you will open the door to a new world.
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| Feb 14, 2023 at 7:32 | comment | added | Dominique |
@zeit: how do you do that? Is there some keyboard shortcut? I checked, using charmap, but I only found a Unicode chracter "U+221A". I know how to write ASCII code characters (like <kbd>Alt+0156</kbd> for using ASCII code 156 for character œ), but I don't know how to type Unicode characters.
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| Feb 14, 2023 at 1:49 | comment | added | zeit |
@Dominique √.
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| Feb 13, 2023 at 10:59 | comment | added | Dominique |
Can somebody show me an easy way to write a square root in StackOverflow, as $\sqrt$ is not an option? :-) Oh, I can't install StackApps due to security concerns of my employer.
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| Dec 10, 2018 at 3:15 | comment | added | smci | A good suggestion that should never have been closed, and if you could just edit it to say "SO and selected other SE network sites", then it should be reopened ASAP. | |
| Oct 15, 2018 at 11:10 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Oct 15, 2018 at 11:09 | history | closed |
GlorfindelMod Nathan Tuggy Robert Longson reneMod Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog |
Not suitable for this site | |
| Oct 15, 2018 at 7:00 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 14, 2018 at 22:53 | answer | added | HackerBoss | timeline score: 2 | |
| S Apr 5, 2018 at 16:49 | history | bounty ended | Vadim Ovchinnikov | ||
| S Apr 5, 2018 at 16:49 | history | notice removed | Vadim Ovchinnikov | ||
| S Mar 29, 2018 at 16:16 | history | bounty started | Vadim Ovchinnikov | ||
| S Mar 29, 2018 at 16:16 | history | notice added | Vadim Ovchinnikov | Current answers are outdated | |
| Jul 18, 2017 at 13:24 | comment | added | Stevoisiak | The FAQ link for latex now redirects to the tour page. | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:57 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://mathoverflow.net/ with https://mathoverflow.net/
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| Sep 1, 2016 at 18:18 | answer | added | user65560 | timeline score: 8 | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 10:47 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 26, 2013 at 6:04 | history | edited | Ry-Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Down with HTML entities!
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| Oct 26, 2013 at 4:45 | history | edited | This_is_NOT_a_forum | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Copy edited. More representative link text.
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| S Sep 17, 2013 at 21:21 | history | bounty ended | Ry-Mod | ||
| S Sep 17, 2013 at 21:21 | history | notice removed | Ry-Mod | ||
| S Sep 10, 2013 at 18:41 | history | suggested | Richard Tingle | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Its LaTeX, I almost spilled my drink
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| Sep 10, 2013 at 17:51 | comment | added | Ry- Mod | @Gilles: Sure. If it’s not, however… I just don’t see the harm in adding something that already works elsewhere for the specific exceptional cases. | |
| Sep 10, 2013 at 17:50 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @minitech If you need math formatting, there's a good chance that your question is off-topic and you should ask it on Computer Science instead. There are plenty of exceptions, of course, but I've found it to be a good rule of thumb for deciding between Stack Overflow and Computer Science. (You could even add a third wheel: code → Stack Overflow, math → Computer Science, neither → Software Engineering, but I don't know how accurate that one is.) | |
| Sep 10, 2013 at 17:29 | comment | added | Ry- Mod | @Undo: Not on hand. Anything regarding algorithms. This advice is an important part, by the way. | |
| Sep 10, 2013 at 17:28 | comment | added | Undo | @minitech Do you have an example for when you would use this on SO? | |
| S Sep 10, 2013 at 17:18 | history | bounty started | Ry-Mod | ||
| S Sep 10, 2013 at 17:18 | history | notice added | Ry-Mod | Current answers are outdated | |
| Jun 9, 2013 at 17:12 | comment | added | Engineero | I would argue that programmers see a lot of complex math, it just depends on what you are programming. I do research in intelligent controls, for instance, and most of my programs are heavy on both the programming stuff and the math. LaTeX in SO would be extremely helpful. | |
| Jan 19, 2013 at 17:11 | answer | added | mchen | timeline score: 120 | |
| Nov 19, 2011 at 1:09 | comment | added | Merlyn Morgan-Graham | Maybe this is just my personal problem, but I cannot read set theory notation or Sigma notation, even though I easily understand the related concepts they embody. Those would probably be the first things commonly used on the site. As much as I want arithmetic to have the proper symbols, I would not want the rest that comes with it. | |
| Nov 18, 2011 at 21:48 | answer | added | Iterator | timeline score: 26 | |
| Mar 6, 2011 at 22:57 | vote | accept | Claudiu | ||
| Mar 6, 2011 at 14:14 | answer | added | datenwolf | timeline score: 66 | |
| Aug 7, 2010 at 8:02 | history | edited | Jeff Atwood |
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| Aug 7, 2010 at 8:02 | answer | added | Jeff Atwood | timeline score: 45 | |
| Jan 14, 2010 at 16:28 | answer | added | balphaStaffMod | timeline score: 44 | |
| Jan 14, 2010 at 16:11 | comment | added | Aiden Bell | svgkit.sourceforge.net/tests/latex_tests.html or similar might help. Think "preview bit" below answer. | |
| Dec 17, 2009 at 1:42 | comment | added | user138665 | I think this is a good idea. It would be very helpful for the more computer sciency sort of questions. I think LaTeX makes the most sense; it's standard in academia. | |
| Nov 29, 2009 at 23:59 | comment | added | Jason D | I like the idea in principal. However, it should be as intuitive as possible. I've looked at LaTeX for typesetting and decided to stick with QuarkXPress as I found it more intuitive. (shudder) | |
| Nov 22, 2009 at 2:41 | comment | added | Claudiu | That's true, but just because we're used to something bad doesn't mean we shouldn't attempt to improve it =). | |
| Nov 22, 2009 at 2:20 | comment | added | Gnome | +1. Though in a "programming", instead of math, environment, it seems this issue comes up less often and programmers are used to dealing with it when it does. Plus complex formulas aren't needed nearly as often. (How often do you think you'd be misunderstood on SO writing n^2 and n**2?) | |
| Nov 22, 2009 at 1:38 | history | asked | Claudiu | CC BY-SA 2.5 |