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What would be an appropriate way to include the .sty file of a custom package in an answer/post if it is longer than 30000 characters?
Drawing intersecting planes in TikZ is a well-known struggle.
pgfplots cannot draw vertical planes, nor can it layer two intersecting planes correctly.
This seems like it should already have a library ...
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Discussing whole document codes
In some cases, I can not reduce questions to a MWE.
I would like to present whole and sometimes complicated codes to be discussed.
Is there a way, to do this in TexExchange?
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Upvoting again, rewarding a question just because it has been asked
In every case, a question, if it is useful or not, should be upvoted by any reaction of the community. A reaction, may it be a comment or an answer, shows some interest for the question, so, the ...
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Before sending a comment mark it deleteable by the addressee?
You can easily delete your own comments.
For several reasons I tend to be reluctant when it comes to editing other people's contributions. For example, I don't want my name "stamped" on a ...
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etiquette when it comes to providing credit for useful posts on TeX.SE, if they show up a lot in your work
this is my first question on the Meta, so I apologize if it may not be entirely relevant.
Suppose you are a LaTeX Editor working for/under someone, and in your role as a LaTeX Editor - in addition to ...
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TeX StackExchange search tool question
I see that some questions on the TeX StackExchange don't have any tags. How can i use the integrated search tool to get all existing questions without any tags?
Thanks for your help.
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Does it have added value to add alt text to a screenshot?
Stack Exchange allows users that add an image to a post to enter an alt text. When uploading an image the following markdown is inserted:
[![enter image description here][1]][1]
[1]: https://i....
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How to upload/share source files to StackExchange?
I wrote MS Word macros for word-to-latex and latex-to-word conversion. Is there standard scheme to share source files? Thank you in advance!
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How to refer to THIS website?
I would like to thank this community in my masters thesis for your help with complex formatting i Latex, because I have used it extensively and for relatively hard problems. You guys always seem to ...
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Seeking advice on communicating my role as a scientific article editor
My job entails editing documents I receive in .tex format from scientists (mostly physicists) to ensure that these papers adhere to the stylistic uniformity of the journal in which they will be ...
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DuckDuckGo finds some answers that are not found by the search bar
Today, I tried to use the TeX & LaTeX search bar to find examples of code that use the macro text_expand (a macro from the l3text module)
The following lists what I tried searching.
text_expand (...
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Should the site scope be broaden to typesetting?
Tex is a notorious typesetting tool, but it's not the only one. I wonder why shouldn't the site scope be broaden to that? That includes:
Typesetting theories
Typesetting industry
Typesetting tools
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When are big-list questions not opinioned-based?
The question Are there visual illustrations on the struggle of Word on formatting in comparing with LaTeX? is closed for being opinion-based. How is it be different to the rest of big-list questions?
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Why can I not log into the chat room?
I am quite hesitant to post here, but as of today I can't log into the TeX SE chat room. I can log into the main site just fine but when I attempt to enter the chat room I get a reminder that I must ...
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Question unreasonably marked as dupe
Today I asked:
File `perpage.sty' not found. \MakePerPage
and with the help of a commenter, answered it.
A while later, the question was marked as a dupe of
How do I install an individual package ...
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Links to texample.net use https but site seems to use only http
My browser refuses to follow links to texample.net on the grounds that the site is not available via https. But earlier questions link to the site using https e.g. most recent such question.
The ...
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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What is unclear about my question?
This question of mine was just closed as unclear. I haven't really received any feedback as to what people find unclear. One user said they didn't understand the question and suggested to rework the ...
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AI-generated content policy banner in answers. Do we want them?
There was a recent "poll" here on Meta.TeX.SE asking about the use of generative AI in answers. Read all about it here:
Should AI answers be banned?
The results from that discussion were ...
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Why this one of my answer is removed:: "Could not start the command:" probably because the filename has two spaces?
In This post on the solution of "Could not start the command:", I wrote the answer:
Another probable situation is you (maybe unintentionally) typed two consecutive spaces ' ' in the file ...
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Should a question be closed for being off topic if it has an accepted answer that is on topic?
Consider EB Garamond percentage glyph
The closing message says that the comments should explain why the question was closed. I don't think they do.
One could argue that the question as formulated is ...
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Unmatching views count between question counter and badge earned
I just wanted to report the following:
1. I received this notification:
2. However, when I went to check it, I got
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Should a question be closed based on a comment of the OP, when the best answer is not covered by the duplicate?
When search for a problem of my latex file, I found the answer in this question: ! LaTeX Error: File `IEEEtran.cls' not found
The highest voted answer solved my problem precisely, and apparently ...
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Better experience on this website - Copying code to clipboard
This site is missing an important feature: a button for copying LaTeX code and co to the clipboard.
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How to provide an MWE if my question is about the behavior of a specific font I've uploaded to the project?
I'm working on a LuaLaTex project for which there are, as far as I know, only three appropriate fonts in existence, all of which I have to upload to use and all of which produce the issue I'm trying ...
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Do we want to volunteer to test the lowered voting privilege?
There is a post in Meta.SE that is seeking some volunteer sites to test an adjustment of voting privilege (currently set at 15 to upvote and 125 to downvote). There are a few changes, but the ...
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Is asking questions about TeX jargon on the main site okay?
An aspect of learning about the concepts that underlie TeX and LaTeX is learning how to apply terms correctly that are TeX jargon.
Is it on topic to ask about how to apply terms of TeX jargon or about ...
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Is it allowed to mass edit answers for grammar mistakes?
I have been pretty much going on an editing spree for answers with poor grammar. I want to make sure that it is allowed, since it is telling me I have too many pending edits and now I'm worried... In ...
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Add literal Tab in answer?
So, as a relative neophyte here, I was all excited to share my nifty answer to a question about making PDF files reproducible, but when posting it, I found that tex.stackexchange.com converted my Tab ...
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How do I stylize the logos for TeX, LaTeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX in an answer?
I want to write an answer on StackExchange using better styling for the names of the different TeX engines. The upper/lowercase approximation in text looks silly and unprofessional. (BaCtRiAnCaMeLCaSe?...
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erroneously closed question
"Infinite" page or finite pages, depending on how viewed?
This was closed as a duplicate.
This is NOT a duplicate of the question to which it was redirected, since it contains an additional ...
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Synomyns for a newly created tag suggestions, namely protein tag
I created a protein tag for those of us in protein/enzyme/peptide engineering but when I tried to add synonyms, it wouldn't let me as I do not have sufficient rep/score in the protein tag or for ...
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What is wrong with my question?
My question was closed because 'it needs more details or clarity'. However, nobody has queried any aspect of the question, and it has already received a useful answer. What am I supposed to clarify or ...
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Uploading custom cls file
A lot of the time the questions I ask on the TeX stack exchange regard projects using specific class/style files (.cls, .clo, .sty, fonts, etc.). My approach to these questions has been to provide the ...
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Can I ask questions about typesetters that are not strictly variants of TeX in tex.se?
Can users ask questions regarding WYSIWYM typesetters that bear similarities to TeX? For example, SILE owes a lot of its syntax from TeX.
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What is the preferred capitalization/spacing for the name of this site?
I found a dialog box on SE (all sites, not just this one) that capitalizes it as "TeX-LaTex Stack Exchange".
This seems odd to me, as Wikipedia uses a capital X in LaTeX. That said, I'm not ...
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Asking a question about a (partly) AI-generated PGFPlots graphic
I find myself in an unexpected situation. I've been working with an AI provider (who shall remain nameless) to use the pgfplots package to provide a graph with separate, but synchronized, axis (one on ...
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How to find the average number of views
I am wondering about statistical data for questions on a specific Stack Exchange site. For example how do we determine the average number of views per question in say Mathematics SE for a certain ...
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Contact Staff Stack Exchange or with form or an email
I would to to know what is how I can to contact Stack Exchange Staff to send a private message via email or through a private form. Thank you.
Is it this: https://stackoverflow.com/contact?referrer=...
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Changing vote buttons back to pen nibs
TeX.SE lost its iconic voting icons in The Great Undesign of 2018, while some other sites were allowed to keep their custom voting buttons. That was a very tragic day for the site.
Luckily SO now ...
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What would be more generic tags about latex-to-WYSIWYG produced document (differentiating "report-like" from "presentation-like" document)?
Yesterday I saw the {latex-to-word} tag for the first time and decide to add this tag wiki (because there was none):
{latex-to-word} is for questions about conversion from TEX files to DOCX files (...
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A different avatar on Math.SE., Physics.SE and Graphic.SE
This morning I have seen that my avatar is changed in the other communities than TeX.SE. Why there is this change? How to have all avatars the same for each community?
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Should I edit an answer to add a MWE and the corresponding output?
Recently I edited my first post here (about tfrac and sfrac commands) by adding a MWE and an output picture.
I did it because I like to see these two elements in an answer. In this particular case, it ...
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Editing out someones professional affiliation to a company
I recently rejected an edit to an answer by @Paul Gessler where the main thrust of the edit was editing out:
(I'm on support staff at Overleaf.)
at the beginning of the answer. I rejected it as I ...
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On-topic or not?: "How to contribute to ..."
My particular question is "how to contribute to LuaTeX?", but in general I am wondering if questions of this kind are deemed on-topic on the main site or not?
Example of the question I want ...
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Is there a built-in compiler that processes my TeX code and includes pictures of the output in my question/answer?
Does the TeX Stack Exchange have an online compiler where I can view the output of my code and include it in my question/answer instead forcing people to screenshot them manually? If it doesn't exist, ...
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Is there a way to detect AI answers from ChatGPT and co?
What possible ways are there to roughly detect if an answer or question has been wrote by ChatGPT or other artificial intelligence (AI) applications?
Any advice is appreciated and will go nicely with ...
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Can someone clarify what is considered an "opinion-based" question on TeX.SE
Because, even after reading a few resources, in particular on TeX.SE, I don't get it.
Is it applied in this stackexchange differently than in other SEs ?
I signed up 12 years ago and contribute now ...
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Why was my REVTeX-error question closed?
I just got a notification that my old question
REVTex 4.2 bibliography missing space after first author name
was closed for lacking detail. Why did this happen? The question has a specific description ...
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Should AI answers be banned?
As samcarter told me, Stack Exchange failed to make a network-wide ban for AI posts and leaves it to every site to decide themselves.
Some sites have already decided to ban them, see Is there a list ...
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